Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is the age of revolution, in word even more than in deed. Scarcely a publication can be picked up that does not issue a call for revolution in something: art or education, politics or sex, work or play. Yet amid the now commonplace advocacy of upheaval are quieter appeals...
The writers who prefer rationality to revolution are by no means traditionally conservative. In the Sunday New York Times Magazine last month, Benjamin DeMott, chairman of the English department at Amherst, explored the casually violent language of the revolutionary-minded. Among his specimens:
Reasserting the Past. A chief characteristic of today's revolutionaries, thinks Zbigniew Brzezinski, professor of government at Columbia, is that they don't really know what they want-other than violent change. Current protesters and rioters, writes Brzezinski in The New Republic, have much in common with the...
The reasons that are commonly advanced to explain present-day revolutionary action are not persuasive to James Q. Wilson, professor of government at Harvard. Revolutions are commonly thought to be triggered by "material deprivation or unresponsive governments," he writes in the New York Times Magazine. Actually, the more people get...
Last week Biennale artists and revolution-minded students from Madrid, Paris and other points began deplaning in Venice. The students called on the artists to refuse to let their work be shown. In a few cases, they added threats to destroy work on display but surprisingly often the plea alone...