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Died. Paul Goodman, 60, maverick social theorist whose bestselling Growing Up Absurd attacked societal foundations and became a handbook for the alienated young (see EDUCATION...
Frye's citation read: "A brilliant literary theorist whose original and critical mind has ever been devoted to the concerns of education...
...suggested that he was "a 45-year-old Boy Scout" who yearned for a revolutionary glory that was never to be his. The emotional high point of his career as a leftist came in 1967, when he was thrown into a Bolivian jail while attending the trial of Marxist Theorist Regis Debray. Feltrinelli later wrote an article about "my prison"; in fact, he had spent only eight hours in jail...
...books it is the least read, and it was hardly reviewed at all. I concluded that nobody really cared what my philosophy was--I think that's right--the novelist is of interest only for what he does through empathy and image-producing, image-arranging: the more consciously a theorist he is the more apt he is to become impotent or cranky or both. Like Harry, I try to remain kind of open. Revolt, rebellion, violence, disgust are themselves there for a reason, they too are organically evolved out of a distinct reality, and must be considered respectfully...
...frivolous: MOM (for Men Our Masters), started by a Manhattan secretary, and its men's auxiliary WOW (for Women Our Wonders); and the Pussycat League, with its slogan "The lamb chop is mightier than the karate chop." More serious criticism has come from Ti-Grace Atkinson, an early theorist of the New Feminism who withdrew from the movement more than a year ago. Says Atkinson: "There is no movement. Movement means going some place, and the movement is not going anywhere. It hasn't accomplished anything...