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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terms of future directions, as well as past trends, the history of America is not only relevant--it is, like the history of Russia and China, absolutely essential to being at home in the modern, crazy world...
With this degree and his personal attributes, he began to work his wonders at Harvard. Gatto is but one example; there were many others in the past...
...book, The Agony of the American Left, Christopher Lasch attempts to explain the current state of the left in historical terms. His central thesis, spread out over the several articles which comprise this volume, is that a succession of disastrous failures and compromises over the past fifty years has so debilitated and corrupted American radicalism that there now exists no body of leftist thought to guide the new generation of radicals that has grown up in the sixties...
...this reason, American radicals should be far more wary of inviting repression than they have been in the past. "Revolutionaries" at such schools as Columbia and San Francisco State have shown an almost incredible inability to relate means to ends in any rational manner: by making their revolutions within the university, they have jeopardized the revolutionary capacity of the university in the real world outside. Tearing down universities over symbolic issues is lunacy. If such spastic revolutions succeed in provoking a real repression in this country, the question of radical change in America will be settled for a long time...
...worked out though, as well the difficulty of determining which houses go coed and which stay all-male House assignments have always been somewhat arbitrary and when some of the living quarters become clearly inferior that process could cause a great deal more friction than it has in the past...