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Moynihan argues that the community action programs--although generally innocent in conception--quickly turned into federally-created Frankensteins whose only ascertainable result was to raise the level of community conflict in cities all over the country. Since the role of governments should be, he feels, to counteract the fragmentation and anomie inherent in industrial civilization--to lead in the quest for community--the conflict created by the community action programs was in itself undesirable...
THIS IS NOT to say that the arguments in Washington have no importance, or that we should pay no attention to them. Moynihan may be more right than he knows: the new administration which he serves was elected by the "non-poor, non-rich" to whose fears he devotes so much attention, and a right-wing reaction may be on the way which will show the American left that the established institutions, whatever their failings, are not "irrelevant" to its concerns...
...most honored places, clearly is the major underlying threat in our country to civil liberties and academic freedom. The Eastlands and Thurmonds, the bigoted and brutal police departments, the Reagans and Hayakawas constitute the real threats to cherished freedoms. What responsibilities do the professors and President Pusey in particular (whose own record against McCarthyism was far less than admirable) acknowledge in defeating these reactionary forces...
...joke. He is also the talented son, risen to the post of Assistant Commissioner for the City of New York Commission on Human Opportunity. His parents--"the two outstanding producers and packagers of guilt in our time"--are the expected, overprotective Jewish mother and her long-suffering, constipated husband (whose constipation seems to rival Luther's in cosmic significance.) Togther they praise and badger Portnoy until he finds himself in a paradoxical position: his family considers him among "princes . . . and saviours and sheer perfection on the one hand, and such bumbling incompetent, thoughtless, helpless, selfish, evil little shits, little ingrates...
...Gayle at the Martinique last summer. That's funny, now. She didn't belong there. Daytona's Number One Psychedelic Nite Spot draws some junior high kids whose parents belong to Oceanside Country Club and to the Palmetto Club Juniors. (Mom or Dad let off Flea and Susy about nine on Main Street, and pick 'em up in their Toronado halfway through the Johnny Carson show. They couldn't have done that when the bikies ran the "Q," but there haven't been any busted lips or broken chairs for a couple of years since the town started shooting speed...