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...Levi-Strauss has become a kind of cult. For Americans his structural anthropology is new, brilliant, maybe even a way out of the jumble of inexplicable data collected over the years by social science. But a more important part of his appeal is his brashness. Levi-Strauss is a theorist attempting to discover in the materials of culture the universal structures of the human mind. His objectives are just that large, and one senses he may be already part of the way there...
...William Oliver Martin, a University of Rhode Island philosophy professor, supported the anti-abortion stand during the Friday discussion; Frank Meyer, a scholarly conservative theorist and a senior editor of the National Review, politely contradicted him. Meyer spoke of a woman's right to her own body and to its use, and argued that the question was not one of the sanctity of human life as it might be for Buddhists, but one of the sanctity of the human soul. "I do not regard abortion as murder at an early stage. If it is not murder, thenit is tyranny...
...theorist. I can't judge whether the Panthers, in arming themselves, may have been precipitate, bringing down on themselves more repression than they could possibly resist at this time, repression that, if it doesn't kill them, may force them, to make their organization more and more severe and authoritarian. Perhaps that decision can't be made yet. What I do know is that I feel I'm in the same struggle the Panthers are in-though with much less risk to myself. I want most of the things they want. That's why the trial in New Haven...
...radicalism can barely accommodate the drug-rock epoch of student politics. The student left embraces more than a mind-blown psychedelia-but the offspring of Lenin, the puritanical disciples of collective repression who infatuate Walzer, are fast disappearing. The prospect of an irrational left has chilling consequences for a theorist of responsible dissent...
...might consider moving toward a moderate position on racial issues. But Alabama is neither the whole South nor the region's bellwether. Along with Mississippi and Louisiana, Alabama may in fact represent a vestigial resistance with far more past than future (see following story). Kevin Phillips, a theorist and codifier of the Nixon Administration's largely misnamed Southern strategy, believes that "Wallace has become too gross for the Southern middle class. Where before he was a conservative regional candidate, he had to get down to his cracker base to win in his home state...