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...fact, not one of the girls who wait for a break in Hollywood is going to tell you that she sleeps for the sake of her career. And if she does sleep around, it is defensible: The new morality is not so permissive that girls will sleep with men they do not like. And, these days sleeping is not enough. Although it is not certain that it ever was, today, with so much openness about it, it is probably even less important...
...meet favorable circumstances. Where democratic politics are closed off, then the intellectuals--young and old alike--will make common cause. Where the older intellectuals share power or see possibilities of compromise, then the intelligentsia will experience the conflict of generations. This "localized" conflict can be more acute. For the sake of revolutionary purity, students direct their tactics against the old liberals who have "sold out to the Establishment!" And since many of them teach at the university, they are easy to surround and threaten...
FEUER TENDS to use terms like "radicals," "students," and "activists" indiscriminately. He might easily have distinguished the New Left from the New Politics. The New Left prefers to work outside party politics. It prefers direct action for the sake of a moral principle--strikes, demonstrations, building takeovers. Any kind of long run participation in decision-making bores the radicals. It is more Nietzschean to pit one's will against the system and make it yield. Confrontation politics is not really politics...
Nashville Skyline, by contrast, has no tragedy and no drama. The poetry is damp and the songs essentially trivial. There really is not way of getting around it. Dylan seems too happy to be able to create masterpieces and one is glad only for his sake. There will be more records in the future, no doubt, but will they not be like Nashville Skyline, pleasant an perfect but low-level? And to think I almost didn't believe once the old saw that artists have to suffer or they're not artists...
...Shea's mind as he was writing the play. If the play is a success, then, it ought to maintain that balance throughout and fall neither into the trap of direct political statement telling people to become radicals, nor into that of a decadent art-for-art's-sake, the two extremes that Shea tries to avoid. The first, he maintains, is usually...