Volume 12, Number 8 · April 24, 1969
The Radical Students
By Frederick C. Crews
The Conflict of Generations: The Character and Significance of Student Movements
by Lewis S. Feuer
Basic Books, 534 pp., $12.50
Overlive: Power, Poverty, and the University
by William M. Birenbaum
Delacorte, 195 pp., $4.95
University in Turmoil: The Politics of Change
by Immanuel Wallerstein
Atheneum, 147 pp., $4.95
Innumerable essays and books on the university crisis, the generation gap, and the significance of the student Left appear to have settled very little. Public anxiety has fastened upon these themes as a unitary threat or promise calling for a general position of resistance or welcome. Often the first casualty is logic. The distribution of power within universities is discussed as a conflict between strict and permissive rearing patterns, and tactical matters get confused with taking sides for or against a whole generation. No rhetorical strategies are spared to prove that we should or shouldn't allow ourselves to be guided by the superior idealism or utter depravity of the young.
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