LETTERS

Editors: I had planned to let my subscription expire, but your Winter issue was so good that I changed my mind. I was particularly interested in the correspondence between Irving Howe...

...Be patient.—Ed...
...It included discussions with such people as Norman Thomas, Hannah Arendt, Rollo May, Saul Bellow, and H. Stuart Hughes...
...Both the conservatives and liberals have formed new groups...
...George P. Walker, mother of exMaj...
...After reading this little interchange, the idea occurred to me how valuable it would be if an entire issue of DISSENT were devoted to an exploration of the family: the "modern family," and the family as a social institution...
...While the viewpoint of some of your contributors may not be precisely mine, it is still written and edited from the same side of the street or barricades that I walk on...
...The main purpose that your magazine has served for me is to realize that I need not and cannot shy away from the world's problems because they are so numerous and complex, and that I can find a way in which I can put my resources to work...
...Irving Howe's article made one point that impressed me greatly: a vast number of liberals tend to group all the student conservatives in the classification of Birchers and Minutemen...
...Editors: I am now reading your Summer 1961 issue on New York...
...Let me congratulate you on an excellent issue (Winter, 1962...
...The liberal group is composed of both graduate students and undergrads...
...Elizabeth S. Cowles, president of the 200-member chapter.—From the New York Times...
...I thought that the article on "The Devolution of Democracy" was particularly good...
...If you printed a few biographical lines about each writer, I think it would be helpful...
...How come he is so well-informed about this...
...we promise a much larger "Letters" section next issue...
...Editors: Here at Northwestern University we have just had a symposium entitled "Commitment in an age of anxiety" which was totally student sponsored...
...Many of our readers have written us about this...
...We intend to resume brief biographical identifications of our contributors...
...While the articles should be judged on their own merits, I keep asking myself, "Who is he...
...Howe does not think so and admires some of them as students that "speak as men of principle, doomed to be a minority for a long time...
...Edwin A Walker was cited here yesterday for "her great contribution to the formation of the character and attributes of her son...
...The award by the New York City Colony of New England Women was announced at a WaldorfAstoria ceremony by Mrs...
...Political activity here at Northwestern is slowly beginning to grow...
...I don't think a discussion of this type has ever been conducted in the pages of an American (socialist) publication...
...Although I am quite aware of the apathy on the campus, I do believe that eyes are opening—if only to peer through cloudy or colored glasses...
...Editors: I had planned to let my subscription expire, but your Winter issue was so good that I changed my mind...
...They picketed (the first in NU's history, I believe) a series of anti-Communist seminars held here...
...an appeal for a general boycott has been issued in the Northwestern Daily...
...Such a discussion is long overdue for it may be that this one unexamined sector of our social experience is the fly in the ointment...
...It is the first time I ever read DISSENT, and I like it...
...Mrs...
...A number of the writers are unfamiliar to me...
...I was very glad to see that Mr...
...It was a tremendous success in the eyes of students and faculty, and I am quite sure that the enthusiasm generated at the discussions will not be short-lived...
...There has also been activity in the area of barber-shop discrimination against foreign students (Indians, West Indians, and Africans...
...Apparently both men consider the family important— even if, as in Goodman's case, only because he is against it...
...And, while we're "explaining...
...I would like to make a suggestion...
...I was particularly interested in the correspondence between Irving Howe and Paul Goodman on the family...

Vol. 9 • April 1962 • No. 2


 
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