Volume 12, Number 8 · April 24, 1969
Man of Distinction
By Stephen Spender
Democracy and the Student Left
by George Kennan
Bantam, 224 pp., $1.25 (paperback) (paper)
George Kennan's famous controversy with the students, consisting of his speech at Swarthmore College, numerous replies by students and teachers, and his own reply to the replies—all published in the paperback Democracy and the Student Left—revolves around two issues: Mr. Kennan's idea of what a university should be; and his reflections on the behavior and attitudes of the rebellious students in their reactions to the war in Vietnam, the draft, racism, and other issues.
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