CONTEMPORARY NONSENSE
HEADLINERS
NIXON'S BRAND OF QUAKERISM DE-EMPHASIZES
PACIFICISM
(New York Times,
January 26, 1969.)
NIXON HOPES YOUTH TURNS TO RELIGION
(New York Times,
April 28, 1969.)
PRESIDENT TO ASK TAX CUT IN UPPER-INCOME BRACKET
(New York Times,
July 27, 1969.)
NIXON BARS WIDE HUNGER DRIVE; SHORT RANGE
MEASURES PLANNED
(New York Times,
May 1, 1969.)
(Contributed by William Mather Boardman, New York, N. Y.)
ILLITERACY CONSIDERED NATION'S No. 1 EDUCATION
PROBLEM
(New York Times,
October 11, 1969.)
COMING AND GOING
For years alienation has been the favorite catchword of the Amer–
ican literary establishment, as triangulated by the
Partisan Review,
Commentary,
and the
New York Review of Books.
What they mean
is
that since they lost their jobs in Army Intelligence after the war, the
ruling circles of American society have forgotten they exist and no
longer ask them out.
("Alienation," by Kenneth Rexroth.
Arts in Society,
Spring/Summer,
1969.)
"Pusey was doing the right thing, but he was doublecrossed by
his
faculty, [Hayakawa said]. . . . Hayakawa still speaks with open bitter–
ness of the "cultural snobbery" of faculty members who supported the
students, as their counterparts across the continent at Harvard are
doing. . . . "There's an unconscious cultural snobbery on the part of
the college-educated against those who are not college-educated," he
said, "a deep-rooted prejudice among some intellectuals that they are a
superior order of being because they are intellectuals. Some of them
believe the world has no damn business being run by politicians, gen–
erals and businessmen. They think it should be run by literary critics
and philosophers." With a wry grin, Hayakawa said Plato, who ad–
vocated rule by philosopher-kings, was "the first and most brilliant ex–
ample of the disgruntled intellectual.
If
he were alive now, he'd have
been president of our campus chapter of the AFT." ...
(Washington Post,
April 18, 1969.)
