Among Our Contributors
DENNIS ANDERSON is a Washington-based free-lancer. STEPHEN F. COHEN, an associate professor of Politics and director of the Russian Studies program at Princeton University, is the author of...
...DAVID M. MUCINICK, an attorney, sociologist, housing consultant, and member of the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, recently designed the plan to market the Manhattan Plaza housing development for performing artists...
...shortage and the real economic insecurities est mirrors may in large part account for the differences in the therapies popular a decade ago and now...
...It engenders a false equanimity and deflects attention from the abdication of individuality...
...Occupational Safety and Health Administration and its counterpart agency in Sweden...
...ELLEN KELMAN, a former reporter for Newsday who now is studying public policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, has researched the development of American welfare policy...
...The authoritarian training relieves people from the complexities of questioning, uncertainty, and doubt...
...Get your act together— and toe the line," is the lesson of est...
...He is writing a book on the future of American cities...
...This relief from the dilemmas of freedom might be felt as temporarily liberating, but it exacts too high a price in the surrender of skeptical intelligence and the kind of thoughtfulness that might lead to a truer estimate of individual powers and a more genuine social responsibility...
...GEORGE SAUNDERS, translator of Russian and writer on Soviet affairs, is the editor of Samizdat: Voices of the Soviet Opposition, a collection that emphasizes left-wing dissent, and co-editor of the forthcoming Portraits, Political and Personal by Leon Trotsky...
...He is active in defense of Soviet and East European political prisoners...
...When, for a brief time, affluence seemed assured, easy to gain, and even boring, people could turn their attention toward such psychological luxuries as alternative life-styles or selffulfillment...
...In a recession economy, the quest for emotional extras becomes too expensive...
...EVA HOFFMAN has taught literature at the University of New Hampshire and Tufts University and is now a freelance writer writing about literature, music, and cultural phenomena...
...GUSHING N. DOLBEARE, a consultant on housing policy and programs, was until recently executive secretary of the National Rural Housing Coalition and is organizer and chairperson of the Ad Hoc Low-income Housing Coalition...
...Let it all hang out," encounter groups told us...
...it instills a gerry-built confidence distracting from legitimate discontent...
...People need all of their energies to maintain what they have to stay even...
...AL NASH, a long-time unionist now teaching for the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, is writing a book about his experiences as a socialist in the labor movement...
...The subterfuge involved in preaching the familiar and bracing creed of individualism might perhaps be seen as a saving illusion, which makes it possible for people to adjust to circumstances they have to accept anyway...
...But the charade of power that est offers its trainees is in fact insidious...
...No wonder that they respond to therapies that endorse materialistic incentives, arouse the will to act, and urge the virtues of unprotesting discipline...
...STEPHEN F. COHEN, an associate professor of Politics and director of the Russian Studies program at Princeton University, is the author of Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938, and a Guggenheim fellow for 1976-77...
...q STEVEN KELMAN, author of Push Comes to Shove: The Escalation of Student Protest and Behind the Berlin Wall, is completing a comparative study of the U.S...
Vol. 24 • April 1977 • No. 2
