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...Rebirth of Spirit. Such concepts will undoubtedly remain only theoretical proposals so long as old Moscow-oriented conservatives, who still have deep anxiety about Western plots and the latent power of anti-Communist forces in Poland, have a decisive influence in policy. But the rising generation of Poles shares few of these phobias. Younger Poles, including even officials, are also far less concerned with doctrinaire ideology. "If you tried to win an argument by quoting Marx," a young Warsaw lady said, "you would be laughed out of the room...
...still to be chosen, but of those being considered, none was connected with the old Post. Many of the contributors will be former Post writers, but according to SerVaas, articles will also be written by college students "and perhaps some drop-outs." Reaction to the Post's rebirth has been mixed. The managing editor of the Post from 1965 until its demise, Otto Friedrich, declared: "A quarterly dedicated to the past with covers by Norman Rockwell doesn't seem very promising." Pete Martin, one of the old Post's most popular mainstays, took another tack...
...paradigm for man's attempt to redefine the boundaries and re-establish the concept of immortality, while defying the specter of death which the bomb has established. "The activist response to symbolic death," he says, "or to what might be called unmastered death anxiety, is a quest for rebirth. One could in fact view the entire Cultural Revolution as a demand for the renewal of Communist life. It is, in other words, a call for the resurrection of revolutionary immortality." Mao Tse-Tung, Lifton suggests, is the embodiment of revolutionary immortality, the aged man who renews his life...
Reich's three categories are first presented historically as stages in a familiar pageant entitled, "How America went wrong . . . and the rebirth of human values that is emerging in the new generation." For Reich weighs the American past and finds it wanton. The Consciousness I period is associated with the young Jeffersonian Republic-freedom-loving, egalitarian, expansive, democratic, though lamentably competitive. Its spirit stifled slowly, as America evolved into another political caricature, the pinched, repressive, committee-loving, life-suppressing, reform-minded meritocracy, which Reich seems to regard as something very like Hell on Earth. Decisive moments in this decline...
America began as a ritual of rebirth-the world's best publicized new beginning. Now the original American Dream is dying by bits and pieces, and that is our panic. Do the new rituals represent fumbling attempts to initiate a second beginning? Is all the writhing and the agony, all the violent self-division, the schizophrenia of an old self dying, a new self being born? Are we witnessing, at last, the erratic rites of America's coming of age? Of its coming to a self-awareness chastened by defeats into being more human? It is too ^soon...