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...issue was whether or not certain members and activities of the Center for International Affairs have, in the past, abetted imperialistic or repressive policies in a number of instances, then the SDS might have won. However, if the question was whether the mainstream of present CFIA studies and activities warrants the abolishment of that institution, then the SDS not only lost, but lost badly. For the SDS to admit the possibility of intra-institutional reform through humane, factual discussion by students and faculty, and through radical critique, would presumably be incompatible with the neat SDS model of revolutionary change...
...societies where sex roles are most polarized, and where women are outside the mainstream, sex is dirty, and violence breeds," Betty Friedan said last night...
...appeared in 20th century America. Obversely, a number of businessmen, while transforming the society by automobiles, advertising, computers and urbanization, refer to themselves as conservatives, a term suggesting opposition to change. Almost any so-called radical utterance these days will contain an explicit or implicit rejection of the mainstream of change during the past 150 years, together with a longing for a future society conceived as a static Elysium. As for the modern liberal position, it has been more noted for restraining (sometimes wisely, sometimes foolishly) the forces of change than for stimulating or liberating them...
...have, as matters stand, no name at all for people who think that the accelerating mainstream of American change is both good and also desperately in need of discriminating improvements of a kind that does not flow readily from the liberal, radical or conservative positions. For all anybody can tell, such people might form a majority if they could break out of the enforced anonymity imposed by a political dictionary that provokes unfair, anarchic excrescences such as radical liberal and radical conservative...
...through the currents of style: history is his natural element, and from the last 20 years of Johnson's output it is clear that he took to a manner of freewheeling historical allusion as his proposed alternative to the International Style-which by 1950 had frozen from a mainstream into a glacier, trapping its architects in ice like mastodons...