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Irving Louis Horowitz Tributes: Personal Reflections on a Century of Social Research. Transaction Publishers, 392 pages $34.95
In Song of Myself, Walt Whitman asks a question that has been repeated by many contemporary Americans: "Why should I venerate and be ceremonious?" When egalitarians rule the cultural roost, veneration is to be eliminated like nuclear energy, and candor--interpreted as not revealing personal wants--is the one trait that can excuse all personal faults. "Tell it like it is"--a cliche whose time has fortunately passed--is recalled as a criticism of most conventional ceremonies from the 1960s to the present.
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