by Frederic Manning
St. Martin's, 1977
(released 1978)
247 pp. $8.95
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by Edward O. Wilson
Harvard, 1978
272 pp. $12.50
LofC78-17675
By Isaac Bashevis Singer. Farrar, 1957,
republished 1978. 205 pp. $4.95 (cloth$9.95)
By Sterling Wortman and Ralph W. Cummings, Jr. Johns Hop-
kins, 1978. 454 pp. $6.95 (cloth, $25)
By Hildred Geertz and Clifford Geertz.
Univ. of Chicago reprint, 1978. 226 pp. $3.95
By Iris Murdoch.
Oxford reprint, 1978. 89 pp. $2.95
By Seymour Lipset and Earl Raab.
Univ. of Chicago, 2nd ed., 1978.
605 pp. $7.95
David Riesman
In common parlance, "the 1960s" generally denotes the tumultuous period between the Kennedy assassination in 1963 and the beginning of Watergate in 1972. Like other stereotypical decades, the '60s are now seen retrospectively through a dis- torted lens. We forget, for example, that civil-rights activism, civil disobedience, and the antinuclear movement in the United States all began in the 1950s. the same token, although Amer- ican campuses achieved their greatest visibility...
In common parlance, "the 1960s" generally denotes the tumultuous period between the Kennedy assassination in 1963 and the beginning of Watergate in 1972. Like other stereotypical decades, the '60s are now seen retrospectively through a dis- torted lens. We forget, for example, that civil-rights activism, civil disobedience, and the antinuclear movement in the United States all began in the 1950s. By the same token, although Amer- ican campuses achieved their greatest visibility in the...