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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Wednesday, June 24 1970
Wednesday, June 24, 1970
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
For Direct Classilied Ad Service, Phoue 764-0557
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The
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InI
the Set
A Feature Review by James V. Romano
FOR RENT
The Ann Arbor Fair Housing Ordi-
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crimination in housing. Questions
should be directed to Off-Campus
Housing. 764-7400.
2 BDRM. FURN. units on campus,
avail. for fall. McKinley Assoc., 663-
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ON CAMPUS, singles for male grad
students or teaching fellows, clean,
very quiet, linens, no cooking. 723
Packard near State. 5035
AIR-CONDITIONED 1 BDRM. APTS.
Avail. Now. 761-2680
UNIVERSITY TOWERS
536 S, Forest
EAST University at Hill St-
Apt., $100. July L. 769-7346.
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CHOICE APARTMENTS
STILL AVAILABLE
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applications for fall rental for all 3
locations. For rental information call
761-6156 or 761-3466. 4041
2 AND 3 BDRM, TOWNHOUSES, $130-
150 per month, initial deposit $390, 7
chilren and pets welcome. Arbor Park,
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Piatt. Taking applications for near
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2990 S. State, 761-9026. 20035a
DYNAMITE MODERN 2-man apartment.
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FOR RENT
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males. 764-0298. 25H35
WANTED-Once a wk. help w/house-
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new line of home care products, flex-:
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avail. Call 769-1348. 44H35
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Call after 7 p.m., 461-1008. 43H35
FOR SALE
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Call early, late, 769-5482. 6B35
USED FURN. Couch, bed, dining room
table, armchair, vanity. 663-6151. B35
NEW RECORDS for sale-Rock, pop,
some classical. These are mostly un-
played promo copies. Proceeds to
ACLU. Come to 916 Oakland, Tuesday
and Wednesday morning ONLY. DB35
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12x60 STAR MOBILE HOME, 1 yr. old,
furn. Call 483-1297. 1835
SUNFISH sailboat, $400. Fine Flamingo
guitar, $160. 665-3330. 2B32
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LONDON-DETROIT AUG. 30, $80. Call
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GIRL'NEEDS ride to Calif. Leave 26th
or after, share driving--expenses. Cali
late, early, 769-5482. 35G35
WANTED-Rider to Des Moines Thurs.
475-2541 eves. 36035
RIDERS WANTED to California, leaving
end June, sharing driving, expenses.
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you drive car to be in San Francisco
-Aug. 1. Car avail. July 22. Call 483-
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INDIA Overland. $204, regular trips. 39
Landsdowne Gardens, London, S.W. 8,
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Riders too. Lv. June 25 or 26. 769-
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FOR SALE-Round trip ticket to Eur.,
Windsor to London, June 26-Aug. 6,
very inexpensive, avail, immediately.
Call anytime (preferably after 4), 761-
2240. 30G35
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LOST-Beautiful blue-eyed kitten, tan
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Philip Slater. THE PURSUIT
OF LONELINESS: AMERICAN
CULTURE AT THE BREAK-
ING POINT.Heacon Press, I97A
$7.50.
Ah, love, let us be true
To one another I for the world,
which seems
To lie before us like a land of
dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so
new,
Hath really neither joy, nor
love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor
help for pain;
And we are here as on a dark-
ling plain
Swept with confused alarms
of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash
by night.
-Matthew Arnold
The human figures of the late
sculptor Alberto Giacometti are
dark and brittle images of lone-
liness. Invariably thin, nude,
silent, they stand ravaged by
some tricks of the rational and
the absurd. For Sartre, they are
moulded expressions of existen-
tialism, itself, reflecting man's
encounter with the void. But
time and media coalescent, Gia-
cometti's shapes stand on Dover
Beach, as Arnold's spiritual un-
rest comes into matchstick
being. Only ludid, pleasing verse
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tionalism ironically belying the
strong intelligence earlier shown.
Presumably, the god Dionysus,
has possessed Roszak, who like
Teiresias, sage and seer, has
dressed himself in fawn-skins
and climbed the mountain.
Teiresias may have been looking
for a new job with a new relig-
ion, but Roszak's Bacchic shouts
seem unfortunately to decry ed-
ucation and responsibility.
Just as disgusted by the war
and intimidated by technocracy,
Berger, on the other hand, is
hopelessly conservative a n d
skeptical of change. His instruc-
tion is as distressing as Roszak's
maenadic impulses: "Accept
alienation' - it is the price of
freedom. Learn how to stand
apart." This is consistent with
Berger's sociological perspective
(see Invitation to Sociology
wherein he recommends "ec-
stasy" - the act of standing
outside societal roles), but will
hardly change the dehumanized
society he laments. Berger's pro-
gram, put as blatant imperative,
and Roszak's, more abstrusely
aimed at magical self-expres-
sion, both stress concepts of
individualism. Individualism, in
its many forms, Slater attacks
as the corruptive element in the
American character.
Slater's sociology is clearly
oriented to group studies. His
first book, Microcosm, is a tech-
nical examination of -various
group, modes - structural, psy-
chological and religious. The
emphasis placed by Slater on
interpersonal relationships may
color somewhat the defining
principles and sympathies found
in The Pursuit of Loneliness
To the credit of his wisdom and
clarity, however, Slater here
avoids as much professional jar-
gon and gamesmanship as pos-
sible.
Also seminal to his present
thesis is-The Glory of Hera, an
analysis of the relations be-
tween ancient Greek myth-
ology and Greek family life. The
book in itself'makes a worthy
contribution to the either prig-
gishly deadening or idealizing
bibliography that precedes it,
though, no doubt, many dyed-
in-the-wool classicists will raise
their eyebrows with scorn, pri-
marily because Slater is a so-
ciologist, a "foreigner." Yet,
herein lies its value; it is an en-
viable achievement ofbscholar-
ship, broad and robust and
functional.
More to the point, a basic pre-
mise of The Glory of Hera is
that the Greek male was "high-
ly oedipal" and strongly nar-
cissistic, consequent upon ambi-
valent and de-sexualizing moth-
er-son relationships. Lest this
seem clinical classicism run
amuck, Slater offers proof with
numerous examples of myth-
ology, art and literature. His
analogies with American cul-
ture do not hold exactly the
same familiar and sexual pat-
terns. Nonetheless, the differ-
ences are considered only quan-
titative. "Buried beneath every
Western man is a Greek-West-
ern man is nothing but Alci-
biades with a bad conscience,
disguised as a plumber. . . . The
need to suprass others, to ag-
grandize oneself, to prove one's
worth and manhood are just the
same. . . . The motivational
basis of our own soceity is sim-
ply an advanced stage of the
same disease that dominated
Greek life." This study then is
no mere homage to the classical
tradition but is dependent upon
it for aid to Slater's conceptual-
ization of modern society. Such
uncommon perspective brings
another sound feature to The
Pursuit of Loneliness, really an
extension of his previous work.
In Slater's new book, the vic-
tim of that advanced disease is
the middle-class American, who
appears hard and mor'orse, con-
trary to the TV image of "smi-
ling faces with chronically open
mouths." Slater's purpose is to
examine reality and fantasy,
thereby to understand what peo-
pIe do to themselves and each
other.-
Human interdependence, as
opposed to competitive individ-
ualism, is the natural reality
most suppressed. "An enormous
technology seems to have set it-
self the task of making it un-
necessary for one human being
to ever ask anything of another
in the course of going about
his daily business." Essentially,
technology "frees" us from in-
terpersonal relationships other
than those which mean profit-
able contacts. The more "free"
we become, however, the more
lonely we live. We feel the need
for Privacy; we mass ourselves
into suburbia looking for it. It
is not enough that there we al-
low ourselves illusions of peace-
ful solitude and suave non-con-
sformity, because there too, un-
happy, we organize "happy
hours"' or block parties, so that
we may get acquainted with the
neighbors and look into each
other's empty faces. Somehow
it doesn't work; it's synthetic
you can taste the plastic.
The desire for community,
meaning collective trust and co-
operation, is one severely frus-
trated in this country. Slater
describes two others: the desire
for engagement and the desire
for dependence. Regarding the
former, he writes:
"...the most future-orient-
ed nation in the world shows
a deep- incapacity to plan
ahead. We are, as a people,
perturbed by our inability to
anticipate the consequences of
our acts, but we still wait op-
timistically for some magic
telegram informing us that
the tangled skein of misery
and self-deception into which
we have woven ourselves has
vanished in the night. . . .
Whatever realism we may dis-
play in technical areas, our
approach to social issues in-
evitably falls back on cinema-
tic tradition, in which social
problems are resolved by gest-
ure."
This is criticism of our in-
ability to engage directly with
social problems and of our
makeshift solutions, and gives
rise to his definition of the
emotions and to teach principles
of adult morality. The stifled
parent suffers, but not as much
as-the child. When adolescent,
he cannot laugh above his own
self-righteousness and stern
moralistic behavior. Deprived of
emotive parental direction and
support, the young are lost and
show dull emotions themselves.
Ironically, their song is: "All
you need is love . . ."
Frustrations were spent at
Woodstock. What happened af-
ter the rains came was never
expected and defied explana-
tion. The "older generation" ac-
tually succoured all those wet
and starving "hippies" who re-
turned thanks. Instincts of mu-
tual need and dependence were
allowed finally to breathe, as
disaster gave the opportunity to
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Before comment on The Pur-.
suit of Loneliness, some general
remarks are due. The alienation
of man, aggravated by bureau-
cracy and technology, has be-
come a theme no longer in the
exclusive realm of the arts and
philosophy, but now fully con-
ceived in political, social and
cultural terms. Modern Amer-
ican literature is markedly so-
ciological, whether in the form
of scholarly treatises or that of
Mailer; Vidal, and Philip Roth.
Of this genre, there are respon-
sible and vibrant- works, some
compensation for the patently
sterile titles that make up best-
seller lists. Much, too, is noth-
ing more than glib, fast-buck
idealization. Made more acute
by war, social ills have caused
extensive examinations of value
systems with prescriptions that
mean, in effect, cultural refor-
mation. When new ideas, how-
ever, take the place of change
itself, or abandon common
sense if not reason, or sadly miss
even a shade of optimism, they
become most disturbing.
Brief mention of two books
will serve as final prelude to
Professor Slater. They are ex-
amples of current thought, sen-
sitive, mutually corroborative
and alike in many instances,
yet, offer different solutions to
the problems of mass society:
Theodore Rosz k's The Making
of a Counter Culture and Move-
wnent and Revolution by Peter~
Berger and Richard Neuhaus
(both Anchor Books, 1969, -70).
Roszak writes a clear anal-
ysis of generational antagonism,
which he follows with an un-
convincing espousal of a sham-
anistic world view and anti-ra-
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parents to act as parents and to
children to. act as children.
Having thwarted certain hu-
man needs, we have made in-
dividualism a goal. But tech-
nology, to which we sacrifice,
cheats us even of being valu-
able individuals. Witness Cap-
tain Lovell of the unlucky Apol-
lo -13 who stated emphatically
at a press conference that his
ship's successful return depend-
ed not on any individual, since
- "You can snap any crew in."
The horrible extent to which we
have become dehumanized, how-
ever, is reflected in our atti-
tudes toward war and violence.
Slater's second chapter is en-
titled: "Kill anything t h a t
moves."
Pondering the insanity of our
involvement in Indochina,-the
slaughter, the hypocrisies, the
lies, the insolence of office, ev-
en those in ivory towers, where
televisions have been installed,
cannot remain unshaken. Slat-
er, not surprisingly, g i v e s
thoughtful analysis of this in-
volvement. He finds t h a t
though we claim to stress the
value of human life, we have
transferred killing from a means
to an end (i. e. genocide; the
body count" is important), in
fact, we overkill. This discovery
is not new, nor are the reasons
of prejudice and technological
showmanship. In addition, Slat-
er suggests that our preference
for "violence at a distance" is
essentially vengeance against
our self-imposed technocracy;
that is, we inflict upon alien and
mysterious "enemies" mechan-
isms that oppress us inscrutably.
Instead of attacking the ma-
chine directly, trying to wrest
control over our own environ-
ment, we take it out on some-
one else, with not so shining
panoply. This assumption, how-
ever true, is too simple to ex-
plain completely our Asian per-
versions. But the tension de-
fined between man and his de-
vices Slater realizes in its most
hideous and painful expression.
The doubts the older genera-
tion may have about technolo-
gical sovereignty are further ex-
posed much to its embarrass-
ment, if not rage, by the youth
culture. That the aim to re-
connect us with each other and
ourselves, and to reestablish so-
cial priorities should be con-
sidered radical ideology is a de-
pressing comment in itself.
Slater believes such "radical-
ism" is seductive to old-culture
adherents although reluctant to
accept new values. The re-
mainder of his book is chiefly
concerned with t he evolution
and divergence of the new cul-
ture, its good and bad habits,
and the hope it extends to the
future.
Slater uses the film, The
Graduate, to highlight t h e
strain between old expectations
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by producing TV documentaries,
by joining in "movements," by
putting Indians in "reserva-
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celebrating Earth Day. The eco-
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wrappers.
What frustrates the human
desire for dependence begins
with the strong independence
training we give our children,
who are forced to assume adult
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