Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...half a million angry men are going to descend on the 50 states with dreams of homes and families and education and jobs. And when they hit the campuses, I sincerely hope that someone tries to stop a Marine "leg" from going to class, or that some sorry, smelly, social reject tries to plant a Viet Cong cross next to the artificial leg of a Seabee, or spits in the burned face of an Army medic. I guarantee that it will only happen once...
...Communists through an interim period, through elections and beyond? The answer is in doubt. He has yet to form the representative popular front that the U.S. has been urging on him for months. Though last week he did bring six political groups into what he calls the National Social Democratic Front, the alliance was not nearly so broad or potent as had been promised...
...essay not reprinted in this book, Grass explained, "The writer can become the conscience of his nation when he throws over his desk for a while, and, as a citizen, engages in politics." As a campaigner for Willy Brandt, as a critic of Willy Brandt for allowing the Social Democrat Party to join in the Great Coalition with the Christian Democrats, Kurt Kiesinger's party, and as a president critic of Kiesinger, who took the Chancellorship with a Nazi past, Grass is acting as citizen and not as writer. He has not, however, thrown over his writing desk. The same...
This statement goes on to assert, in terms which could not be more disingenuous, the responsiveness of Harvard administration and faculty to student demands: "There can be no doubt of their desire to understand the pressures of war, social unrest, poverty, racial discrimination, and the rise of impersonal political institutions on Harvard students-as indeed on students everywhere...
Perhaps what we are witnessing is a kind of social sohizophrenia in which the one-half of society turns on the over-thirty half because, like cornered creatures who tear at themselves in a frenzy of frustration, the under-thirties realize only too keenly that mankind has just about...