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...curious kind of radicalism these people espouse. As Daniel Ball has pointed out in The End of Ideology there is virtually no ideological content in their dissent, no unifying theme. Indeed, some don't even know what they're dissenting from. Some talk about the "Establishment," some about the "military industrial complex," others about bureaucracy" and "big government." Dwight Macdonld and Paul Goodman call themselves anarchists, Prof. Hughes says he's a "socialist" (at least when he's not seeking votes). But the labels hardly help one's understanding, and are of even less value when one surveys the student...
...what kind of society they'd like to have instead. This is quite unlike the student radicals of the '30's who saw very clearly what they disliked in depression-ridden America. The immediacy and clarity of their problems--like finding a job or enough to eat--lent their dissent a tangible and invigorating quality. And too, many based their opinions on various forms of socialist and communist ideology...
Anyone with a slight touch of dissent in his makeup had better see at least half-a-dozen plays currently showing off-Broadway before getting around to the name-brand tranquilizers of the Broadway showshops. But he had better not go much beyond a half-dozen, for the major consequence of off-Broadway's startling ten-year growth has been to dilute its quality in a flood of vanity productions, vapid revivals and Art subverted by Commerce. Off-Broadway entrenched itself as an artistic rebuke to Broadway; increasingly, it is becoming a shoddy sibling rival...
...also swear on the New Leader, Commentary, Dissent, Encounter, the Partisan Review, the Progressive, and lately, the Saturday Evening Post...
...HCUA adopted with one dissent a report of the Jubilee Study Committee which recommended holding Jubilee weekend at the same time as All-College Weekend. The committee was set up last year when the weekend lost $1700. The report also called for numerous special privileges for holders of expensive weekend tickets, and the use of promotional devices to increase ticket sales, which slumped badly last year...