Word: roszak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Recent diagnosers of the national psyche have asked, and partly answered, the questions implicit in their titles. Will America's 300-year-old marathon, The Pursuit of Loneliness, never stop? inquired Philip Slater. Theodore Roszak wondered whether the counterculture of the '60s could lead to a Promised Land, Where the Wasteland Ends. Half autopsy-reporters of the American Dream, half scenario-writers of America 2001, watchers for the new greening (or the last withering) form a kind of avant-garde of prophets-in-waiting...
Most scientists believe that a swelling chorus of anti-scientism could jeopardize solutions to the technological problems that so distress Roszak and other critics. "We have created the kind of world we cannot reverse," says M.I.T. President Jerome Wiesner, a presidential science adviser in the Kennedy Administration. "Too many people are too dependent on technology for everything from agriculture to distribution of goods...
Historian Theodore Roszak: "The basic line of policy has not changed. Nixon remains in the same league as those who bombed Guernica and he does not get out of that league simply by letting up on the bombing here and there...
...paused a while before replying that I thought I'd go to "Law School" and then be a "Lawyer Active In Politics." In mid-cliche I was so embarassed I decided then forever that I'd never be a lawyer. A year later, after I'd read Theodore Roszak's The Making of the Counter Culture. I was boring my father with excited talk about how I was going to have an alternative life-style and not just be a New York Times reporter. When he asked what I'd do in the counterculture I came up with...
...Roszak and Dubos are both, in some sense, optimists. But Roszak posits a crisis that only a radical and desperate hope can respond to. More convincingly, Dubos argues that history has been an unending crisis-with a pretty fair record of self-restoration or at the least survival. Man's greatest complacency, he implies, may be to presume he can destroy the universe of which he is only one product. "Be realistic," says Roszak, quoting a counterculture slogan. "Plan for a miracle." The miracle, Dubos might undramatically demur, is that life in infinite, apparently inexhaustible variety (with or without...