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Anarchy v. Authority. It is both easy and valid to argue that many dissenters ignore history; that if they only understood how much conditions have improved since the Great Depression, they would be less dyspeptic today; that if they could feel the reality of the cold war of a decade ago, they would be less prone to pacifism; that if they would acknowledge the rule of law's value in nurturing progress, they might be less hostile to traditional forms; that anarchy can be a harsher master than authority...
...statement a valid X ray of the body politic in 1968? Or merely a vote-getting ploy? Are these disparate elements capable of ballot-box cohesion? It would seem unlikely. Nixon himself concedes only "differences of emphasis, not of fundamentals; differences in the speed of change, not so much in the direction of change." Yet the pace of progress is itself a key issue. Black militants-and black moderates, for that matter-have been increasingly dissatisfied with gradualism. It was the demand for "Freedom now.'" that motivated black militance in the first place, while many of the whites Nixon...
...French Jesuit philosopher, Father Georges Morel, "is the decadence of a culture that was too rich and too critical." Father Morel finds, for example, that "the ideal of a total view of life is finished" among French intellectuals. "All experience can be interpreted from a thousand points, each equally valid," he says. "In literature, this is expressed in a greater interest in the material, the linguistic texture, than in the thought content." Literary Critic Maurice Nadeau finds, furthermore, that many young novelists are simply "popularizing or dramatizing the linguistic and sociological findings" of such popular scholars as University of Paris...
...office, and can go back and forth between communities, and can read [T. S. Eliot's] Four Quartets and get something out of them, but who is not struggling for his next week's salary. I think that the criticism that is leveled against people like me is a valid one: We are privileged; if we don't know it, we are living in sin--I use the word...
...final vote was 718-Yes, 18-No. Sixty-three per cent of the college voted in the referendum. At least 50 per cent participation was necessary to make the referendum valid...