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...presidential race may well be remembered as the campaign of the hecklers. Since there was little substantive debate on the great issues, the most striking phenomena were the boos and catcalls, four-letter words and shouts of "Sieg heil!" Hordes of hecklers dogged the trail of every candidate, punctuating their speeches with yells and raspberries...
...emphasis in Cleaver's book is on black/white phenomena in the individuals of this country, our society, and the world. He tends to ignore two things. First, he has long passages of bitter criticism of the white race for genocide and brutality. I think the was in Biafra shows that genocide is not an evil committed only by the white race. Secondly, Cleaver has an intricate description of the psychological hangups resulting from our divorce of mind and body. These are crucial to our self-understanding, but I think our psychosexual problems in America are caused by the machine...
...description of a "paranoid outlook" among some students. Paranoia is an overworked, rarely understood term. Typically it belongs in clinical diagnostics and even then, I find its use often excessive and unwarranted. More importantly, many psychologists have reminded us that where paranoia is diagnosed, in fact there are phenomena in the environment making the reaction, the outlook somewhat justified...
...therefore called upon not to insist adamantly on old practices, but to stretch our understanding of liberal education so that it may encompass the new vital phenomena," he said...
...film-makers die, and the industry busily replaces its craftsmen with product-mongers who think only of mass audience and TV sales. Contemporary social phenomena, prevented from developing in peace, are instantly exploited by a Hollywood desperate to be the first on the marketing bandwagon. Thus Hollywood supplies a hippie to the curious netherworld between San Francisco and New York--a hippie one step closer to reality than John Wayne's faceless chattering Vietcong, but already a stock figure for a director to plug into any context available...