Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Crossman occasionally lapses into the same mechanistic liberal-realism which afflicted Bagchot's account of the English Constitution. He would discuss politics exclusively in terms of the management and the exercise of power. He would congratulate the masses for their "bovine stupidity" and then ignore them. True, the party machine introduces a popular element, though still at one remove, into the operations of government. But as the dynamic of social change, the party remains autonomous of the public in formulating policy. "All the new ideas come from the rank and file who are always out of tune with the majority...
...same men who undercut his efforts at every turn in the Peace Corps, as victims of the Machine no less than himself. His condemnation of institutions rather than men may be equivocating from a radical's point of view. But the multi-dimensionality of the officials in Cowan's account (like Erich Hofmann, the "poor schlemiel of an ex-Luftwasfe pilot" who wanted to squelch all boat-rocking at least until he secured his U.S. citizenship) underlines the truth that the tragedy of America admits of few clear villains. In like manner, Cowan understands that the shocking racism of many...
...British pacifist and author; of pneumonia; in Wimbledon, England. A World War I battlefield nurse who lost her brother and fiance in the trenches, Miss Brittain lectured widely and wrote with the passion of experience in her descriptive, often brutal, antiwar writings-most notably Testament of Youth, an account of her conversion to pacifism, which was published...
...friends are political schizophrenics. They enjoy chanting slogans, running through the streets, watching others throw rocks, supporting the NLF and the Panthers, and wearing blue jeans and smoking dope. They are also perfectly able to wear a suit, pass courses, get jobs, and keep a balanced checking account. They fly to the Bahamas or Palm Beach for vacations before returning to Harvard to occupy buildings...
Other articles by new Poonies start out with good ideas but drag on and on past the point of humor. This misfortune befalls Robert A. Rosenberg in "Mopey Dick." which attempts a chapter-by-chapter account of Herman Melville's classic. "Athelsm and Alcohol." by David H. Gaylin, is an example of another piece which begins nicely-giving an account of the goings-on inside Ye Olde Joynte and Lushe-Haus-but fizzles out toward...