Word: swansons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...December 6 issue Mr. Daniel A. Swanson writes, "...liberal academics like S.M. Lipset, Daniel Bell, and others...maintain that fundamental conflict was absent in post-industrial America and that decisions about the directions of society were purely technical...
Copyright by Daniel A. Swanson...
...read Dan Swanson's review of The White Majority with a mixture of amusement and regret--amusement over his ridiculous distortion of economic realities and regret over the fact that many well-meaning people (especially if they have never worked in a factory) may believe him. Swanson portrays the lot of the white American worker as that of endless drudgery rewarded by measely wages. It may come as a surprise to him to know that the average Ford Motor Co. worker (not executive) earns $16,000 a year. Even with inflation, $16,000 permits a family man to look forward...
...Whatever Swanson's faults may be, inconsistency is not one of them. To match his imaginative (if not factual) diagnosis, he includes a suitable cure. What the workers require is more "militant class consciousness." Whatever he means by this Marxist jargon is not explicitly stated, but it indicates that he is as ignorant of the conditions of working people in socialist countries as he is of them in his own. For the Russian worker, certainly the most militantly class conscious of all, is denied the very right to strike. And surely even Swanson knows something about his living conditions. Lawrence...
Penn's weakness this fall will be at defense. Gone are All-Ivy fullbacks John Vroman and Art Swanson and consistent All--Ivy goalie Alex Spector. Penn will need to score...