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the travelers' reports into account. The corresponding passage in Lipset's
earlier
Political Man
runs as follows:
As early as the nineteenth century foreign observers were struck
by the "other-directedness" of Americans.... This image of the
American as "other-directed" can,
as Riesman notes,
be found
in the writings of
Tocqueville and other curious and astonished
visitors from Europe.
Harriet Martineau almost seems to be
paraphrasing Riesman's own description of today's "other–
directed" man in her picture of the early nineteenth-century
American. . . . (Italics mine)
It's not 1984 yet, but as far as I am concerned this is pretty good memory–
holing. In such a context of intellectual sloppiness and mess (to say the
least) it doesn't even matter any more what Riesman and Whyte once
But
for those who do ....
a new series, New York Letters, by Elizabeth Hardwick,
William Phillips, Richard Poirier, Gore Vidal,
and others
The Cold War Now, an article by Richard Crossman
More on Pornography by Steven Marcus
A Little Anthology of Brecht Poems,
translated by Eric Bentley
Harold Rosenberg on New Tur,ns in American Culture
Jonathan Miller on Hugh Hefner
Sex and the Law by Gore Vidal
Max Kozloff on The Art Scene
Camp as Style by Susan Sontag
