Word: views
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RADICALS view American society as being dominated by a relatively small group of people--an elite, more or less tightly co-ordinated, that benefits considerably from the present system. Under this upper crust lies a vast semi-oppressed white lumpenproletariat and a clearly oppressed black proletariat...
...described RUS as being in a kind of experimental stage. Its exact role remains uncertain in the administration's view. But Debbie Batts and RUS do not share this cautious attitude. They feel that students should have a voice in all areas of college government. They want to be part of the "input," and part of the decision-making as well. They want more openness and candor, not tokenism and condescension, from the administration, say RUS members...
...whose iconoclastic paintings, "readymades" and other assemblages of the early 1900s became cryptic formulas for the future; in Neuilly, France. "An explosion in a shingle factory!" hooted a critic, and guards had to restrain angry art lovers when Duchamp's disjointed Nude Descending a Staircase went on view at Manhattan's 1913 Armory Show. The gaunt, enigmatic Frenchman proceeded to thumb his nose all the more vigorously at the pantheon of art. He painted a mustache and goatee on a Mona Lisa reproduction, put his own portrait on a perfume bottle, submitted a urinal titled Fountain...
...community they feel particularly threatened these days by the forces of a changing world that they certainly never made, do not fully understand, and want no part of. Composed almost entirely of lower middle-class factory workers of Italian, Portuguese and Polish extraction, they view intellectuals with suspicion, students with scorn, and money with fear...
McCarthy, in fact, epitomizes the spirit of the Ripon Society more precisely than any Republican. Like McCarthy, Ripon people take a somewhat elitist view of political change, placing great emphasis on compassion and reasonableness on the part of those who govern and tending to distrust both pluralism and the concentration of executive power. These were the instincts that made McCarthy seem so out of place in the traditional Democratic Party...