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Kelman refuses to believe that these people could have plausible reasons for their beliefs. Everything except the YPSL position is the offspring of murky thought or infantile anger. In one of his more disgusting sorties into this sort of psychoanalysis, Kelman discusses the possible sexual aberrations that shape an SDS member...
...seemed to have reached a climax.... I hadn't finished my chicken yet, but everyone else was preparing to leave. There was no advance indication of what the other Negro kid said as he left. "How do I go about joining YPSL...
Compounding the problem of tone is the whining note of self-justification that runs through the book. Kelman's theory of democratic pluralism says that any reform group must act by convincing a majority of the people it is right. But since his own YPSL has so obviously failed by those standards at Harvard, Kelman has to find an alibi. Maybe it's because all the kids, are crazy. Or maybe the press has conspired to squash YPSL. Kelman's reluctance to consider any other reason inspires visions of Lyndon Johnson, muttering down on the ranch about...
...eager to learn more, much more, about the YPSL view of recent events, here is your chance to get 287 pages worth. There may not be another book like this for a while...
Among the groups joining in the call for tonight's meeting are the following: the Moratorium, Student Mobilization. Freshman Council, Faculty Anti-War Group. Adams and Dunster House Committees, SDS, NAC, YPSL, Young Dems, Ecology Coalition, Free University, Student Bar Association, the Committee for Legal Research on the Draft, the Advocate, the Lampoon, the Signet Society, and the CRIMSON...