Abstract
Abstract The 1960s are back in fashion, but in order to perform a dubious social function. Thus, in a recent anthology dealing with the cultural changes that occurred in that decade, all contributors identified that period with a phenomenon Lionel Trilling designated as the “counterculture,” characterized by promiscuous sex, psychedelic experience, and a defiant rejection of what were perceived as middle-class values. Some of the contributors documented their theses with extreme care: Stanley Rothman's article on the correlation between radical students and the social alienation of upwardly mobile Jewish families from which many of them came, was rather persuasive. But the attempt to associate the 1960s exclusively or primarily with the counterculture has become a kind of self-serving cottage industry.
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