Volume 22, Number 20 · December 11, 1975
Strawberry Shortcut
By Martin Gardner
Powers of Mind
by Adam Smith
Random House, 418 pp., $10.00
Today's pop counterculture, especially among the young, is an awesome mix of maximum mindlessness, minimum historical awareness, and a pathetic yearning for (to quote Chico Marx) strawberry shortcut. To hell with established religions, with science, with philosophy, with economics and politics, with the liberal arts—with anything that demands time and effort. Dig the rock beat, kink up your sex life, meditate, tack a photo of Squeaky Fromme on the wall.
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