ABSTRACT
Well, let's start with the personal and then we can go to the more general, institutional, academic. Personal, I think, is something that goes well before the period [1960s] we're talking about. It actually relates to the time when I was a college student, and even a few years before that—and that was the period of the Great Depression in the United States and, of course, in much of the rest of the industrialized part of the world. That event was experienced very seriously in my own home. I grew up in a very small family, one in which my father was unemployed from the outbreak of the crisis crash in 1929, and he did not go to a job on a fulltime basis until the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939. This spans a whole decade and is also, I think, reflective of what our economy was like. There was the inability to reabsorb working people until the outbreak of the war. You can well imagine that this domestic condition, with all the problems incident to the breadwinner not having any full-time employment for ten years when I was a kid, left very deep impressions and made me have an awful lot of questions about the social order. That doesn't mean I had answers whatsoever. It doesn't mean I had a thought out or even partially organized view of the structure of society. But I do know that I had a lot of feelings that things were really pretty out of control. I would say that was a very powerful, if not the most powerful, force in my youth. You can always point to questions of individual teachers and specific episodes. (I don't want to come up with that now.) After completing my undergraduate education, spending time in the army during World War II, spending time in the military government, and here I would pause again. (Is this what you want?)
