'MAD' Was Not so Bad
early struggles to end racial segregation in the South. Mostly children of affluence, these unlikely rebels saw links between their personal troubles (a nagging sense of meaningless- ness, disenchantment with materialism) and larger public issues. In- deed, it was this merger of private and public concerns that gave the youthful Movement its vitality and broad appeal, even before the Viet- nam draft loomed up as a focus for campus protest.
Why did such a lively social phenomenon fade 1973? Certainly...