Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...World Is Watching: A Young Man Looks at Youth's Dissent (New York: Viking Press, paper $1.25) by Mark Gerzon '70, "required reading for the over-thirty generation." The CRIMSON said, "Mark Gerzon's excursion into pop sociology reads like a work commissioned by Look Magazine... Reaching for the profound insight, Gerzon ends up only with a smug revision of Youth Wants to Know... Many of these ruminations on the younger generation make sense only from the myopic perspective of an Ivy League existence." Whether you will like the book depends. I guess, on which journal you find yourself more...
Whether Harvard likes it or not it is deeply entrenched in American society. The nature of the education it provides for its students can have a profound effect on the long-range future of the nation. In addition the decisions it makes as a University and a corporation with regard to specific issues can go a long way towards determining the more immediate future of the country...
...long-range implications are more profound. The Buddhists favor total U.S. withdrawal and disengagement from South Viet Nam. At the same time, they hope to persuade the Communists to stop shooting and negotiate with them for the formation of a "peace"-probably meaning coalition-government that would replace the Thieu regime. Since Buddhism commands at least the nominal allegiance of the vast majority of people in South Viet Nam, the Lotus Blossom politicians feel that they could outmaneuver the Communists in a coalition government...
Scammon and Wattenberg, who describe themselves as independent Democrats, find that liberals, primarily Democrats, have made the profound mistake of equating firmness against crime and rioting with racism. This blunder gives conservatives and Republicans a decided advantage: "The law-and-order issue today is essentially a civil libertarian's issue, and the question that must be asked is: What about the civil liberties of hardworking, crime-scared Americans, black and white, many of whom happen to be Democrats? It is black Democrats who face the worst crime rates in America...
Thomas McMahon's first novel, though, is the total absence of any predictable generation-gap bitterness. The loss of innocence and joy he mourns is both too profound and too vulnerably human for partisanship...