Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...growing up absurd, Paul Goodman suggests, largely because "the Organized System semimonopolies, government, advertisers, " fails to provide enough "man's work"--work which young men can believe in and give themselves to. The victims of this system are the juvenile criminals, whom official culture refuses to take seriously as human beings, but also the young organization men who, though lost in self- contempt, are afraid to leave what they call rat race...
According to Goodman, society refuses to take seriously, and to recognize that he has real in a real world. This chap and others like are a "youth problem," says Goodman, and emphasis is on their "background conditions," which one can manipulate. Thus, "the aim is not to give human beings real goals that warrant belief, and tasks to share in, but to reestablish "belonging...
Even more serious than the difficulties of voluntary poverty, however, is a "neurosis of chronic boredom." Goodman finds that, as cities, machines and the organization of production have grown "out of human scale," the sense of causality is lost. In the crowded city, there is a loss of neighborhood, because of poor planning and increased mobility of families. "A child might not even know what work his daddy does. Shop talk will be, almost invariably, griping about interpersonal relations...
Among Spanish churchmen, the most conspicuous defiance of Franco was the petition addressed by some 350 Basque priests last May to their bishops. Because of the flagrant "contradiction between Catholic doctrine relating to the human person, and the violation of this doctrine by a regime that proclaims its official Catholicism and enjoys the full support of the hierarchy," said the priests, a rising wall of hostility was choking off their ministry. If the causes of the discontent were ignored, the Basque priests warned, the consequences "can harm the church in our diocese for generations to come." Neither the pre-censored...
...manner of a futurist painter determined to show doubters he can be a master of realistic drawing if he chooses, Purdy uses a simple, controlled and explicit prose to achieve his eerie effects. Whether he is being opaque or clear, Novelist Purdy peoples his books with troubling and troubled human beings, proves himself a writer of considerable power and impressive originality...