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...purpose couched in those terms. The Open Conspiracy, despite its honest presentation of a variety of underground literature, cannot appeal to any self-concerned radical. Still, in spite of the fact that it is straightforwardly facile, Mrs. Romm's commentary describes thoroughly- at times, sensationally- the development and growth of the radical movement during the past five years. Her smoothly flowing prose often becomes intensely descriptive, grappling momentarily with acutely perceptive insight. Describing the revolt against the technologized state for example, she notes Edmund Wilson's observation that "in times of social disorder literature becomes gothic." Thus, she writes, life...
...that way." Mrs. Romm writes, "Chicken Little was right. Impotent we all are. When fallible human thinking does not work, the solution is not to think harder. Western Man must finally return full circle to the glimmerings of primeval occult wisdom, to the time when men knew what to do when the sky was falling...
...ROMM is extremely aware of tangential developments and concerns in her examination of the underground press, entertaining very diverse topics and historical issues which she relates to the growth of the underground press as a medium for the ideas of the counter-culture and a reinvigorated, youthful left...
Despite its offensiveness to her. Mrs. Romm defends the movement and street corner press as a legitimate, though rash, expression of deeply felt emotion-"reactions to an America that many of the nation's young feel has not lived up to the promises of their Sunday school sermons or their civies class lessons." To her the underground press is a symptom of a sick society a cancer-like attack on the American body politic. In other words, the underground press- "salacious, hilarious, outrageous, desperate, philosophical, didactic"- is a reactive phenomenon that reflects an ailing culture...
...press itself has been a fleeting and sometimes unstable form of communication, as community, high school, black, G.I., hippie, and radical papers are born and die with amazing frequency. New printing methods- notably the "coldtype" use of the offset press- have encouraged the proliferation of what seems to Mrs. Romm to be an unattractively vibrant genre of protest journalism...