Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arlen wrote me that he was not at all certain that his pieces were about TV. Perhaps they were about a great, white, ultratechnological superpower picking an out-of-the-way closet of the world in which to have a nervous breakdown- "like sending one's crazy aunt to Pernambuco... but Jesus, now the nervous breakdown seems to be here." His primary concern throughout the book is to present television as a dynamic power capable of fashioning human dreams and fears. He writes...
...REPUBLICANS hesitate to debate in 1970, or tie their campaigns to ambiguous White House policies, the Democrats will score big gains. In such a situation, it may be no great advantage to run as a moderate or make bland appeals to the center. Voters' impatience with the war could make them more tolerant of "honest" outspokenness on other issues. Ironically, Harrington's victory in a conservative district depended on his ability to polarize the situation...
...membership was not stacked along any political lines. A broad range of the Faculty's political spectrum was there. President Pusey and Dean Ford were gone; Dean May and Mrs. Bunting stayed, Five or six of the spokesmen for the anti-war petition were there. So was Harrison C. White, professor of Sociology, who chided the Faculty for glibly accepting arguments against the war. The one common factor binding the participants seemed to be their tardiness in getting out the doors...
Calls for an informal vote on the war resolution-the original purpose of the convocation-came up several times. But they were regularly punctuated by speeches like White's and comments by a group of Faculty members who thought the whole idea...
What is to be said to a white student who is on the rack because we adults have left him a guilt derived from living in an incredioly violent, racist, and cruel world...