The sense of the sixties

Pt. 1. The sense of the sixties. Growing up absurd-"human nature" and the organized system / Paul Goodman

The mystical militants / Michael Harrington

The student state of mind / Michael Vincent Miller

The risk is juvenocracy / Lewis S. Feuer

The new radicals and "participatory democracy" / Staughton Lynd

A phrophetic minority: the future / Jack Newfield. Pt. 2. The legacy. Inaugural address / John F. Kennedy

Romans / Murray Kempton and James Ridgeway

Kennedy without tears / Tom Wicker. Pt. 3. The scene. Notes on "camp" / Susan Sontag

The pump house gang / Tom Wolfe

The peace corps / Sargent Shriver

Psychedelics: you can't bring the universe home / Paul Velde

I hear America singing; or "leaves of grass" revisited, like / Jean Shepard

Sex and secularization / Harvey Cox. Pt. 4. The people. The Bogart vogue: character and cult / Gerald Weales

Martin Heidegger: the turning point / William Barrett

The sign in Jimmy Breslin's front yard / Jimmy Breslin

He's a happening: Robert Kennedy's road to somewhere / Andrew Kopkind

Pope John XXIII / Thomas Merton

The comedy of Lenny Bruce / Albert Goldman.

Pt. 5. The negro. "I have a dream..." / Martin Luther King, Jr.

The march on Washington / Murray Kempton

Manchild in the promised land / Claude Brown

My negro problem-and ours / Norman Podhoretz

Who speakes for the negro? / Robert Penn Warren

Power and racism / Stokely Carmichael. Pt. 6. God. The end of Theism? / John A. T. Robinson

The future of belief / Leslie Dewart

The theology of pathos / Abraham Heschel

Faith in search of understanding / John Updike. Pt. 7. War and peace. The dangers of a military-industrial complex / Dwight D. Eisenhower

In defense of thinking / Herman Kahn

Ecce Homol / Konrad Lorenz

Open letter to President Johnson / Robert Lowell

Jeremiah and the people problem / Leonard Kriegal. Pt. 8. Man and science. Alamogordo, Mon Amour / William L. Laurence

Genetics and the survival of the unfit / Lucy Eisenberg

The silent spring / Rachel Carson

Escape to the endless frontier / Don K. Price

Man, work and the automated feast / Ben B. Seligman. Pt. 9. Literature. Black humor / Bruce Jay Friedman

Muse, spare me / John Barth

Writing American fiction / Philip Roth

King Lear or endgame / Jan Kott

Is there a tragic sense of life? / Lionel Abel. Pt. 10. The sense of the future. Culture and technology / Marshall McLuhan

The future of man / Teilhard De Chardin

The statues of Daedalus / Michael Harrington.