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This is a new collection of pieces from the Atlantic, Life, The New York Times, more Supergrowth (1969) featuring the ""way we feel now,"" the greening cultural and political possibilities in which experience asserts itself often at the expense of the older, stable, viz. strictured, modes. Once again Mr. DeMott makes all the right referrals and in fact seems to have read everywhere (cf. his short piece ""The Mod Wishbook"" which deals entertainingly with that Whole Earth Catalogue). He also seems to know all the in-words (for which he has earlier been criticized) like ""flexy"" and the ""new jockery."" They contribute to the contemporaneity with which he projects the NOWness of the scene -- namely Women's Lib and ecology and the campus, so that it all comes up ""experiential"" which is what he is plumping for as nearly as one can determine. This would seem to be at the heart of the discussion of the 1969 Columbia faculty proclamation which leads to one of his more formulated statements -- ""The key issue in academic confrontation concerns the proper relationship between the university and the edge of lived experience."" Although later, in his long, impressionistic, personally involved report on ""My Campus Strike"" the key will be the relationship between college and society with Amherst as the conservator of brahmin values. But then as he says at the very end, ""Definiteness of every kind even here -- for worse and for better too -- is finally on its way out."" Without definiteness, what you have at best is an exposure to all those ""new patterns of thought and feeling"" which Mr. DeMott serves as a fashionably attuned middleman-mediator.
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- PublisherDutton
- Publication date1971
- ISBN 10 0525213104
- ISBN 13 9780525213109
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages153
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