Word: views
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LEWIS MUMFORD considers the view from his study at the top of Leverett towers one of the great advantages of the apartment he has occupied there since 1965. The scene unfolds up Dewolfe St.: first the insistent brick spire of a Catholic church, then the stubby red buildings of the Yard, and finally, William James, towering abrupt and white in the background. The church spire struggles for attention, but can't really match William James, which rises sleek, new and confident above the Cambridge sky-line. Beneath it, the quiet buildings of the Yard huddle together as if frightened...
...have pressed on you my view of our recent history not to claim that
...have begun with our own despair at American society and its automated plastic culture, we have been led to seek out sources of political power in this country which might be organized into a struggle against that society. Obviously we haven't given very far, as yet. But to view our concern for the interests of workers, or black people, or students, or the third world, as merely our attempt to project our personal failure to "make it" on to those other groups, is to fail totally to understand the motivations of SDS. Worse, I think, it cuts...
...relevance of this view of politics (and history) to our situation at Harvard, can be seen implicitly in the decision of the Faculty meeting of January 14, and more explicitly in Ford's article in Harvard Today. In the first part of this letter (CRIMSON, Jan. 9) I examined that article at length, and now I only want to suggest the connection between the views I attributed to Ford (again, I hope I was wrong) and the more general view of the Left that I have been sketching, and then point out some consequences of these positions which...
...among others, then those of us whom he would place in the fourth circle appear to outsiders to have no definite program of interests. In this light, our concern for the interests of others is merely a ruse for the furtherance of our own revolutionary ends. Ford, one suspects, views revolution pretty much as pure destruction, and therefore something to be resisted. I don't know what a revolution would look like in America, and I don't see one around the corner. When I say I work for a revolution, I am in part registering my conviction that...