Letters

Editors: It is unfortunate that in summarizing the symposium of “The Young Radicals” [Winter, 1962], Mr. Lewis Coser could not resist the temptation to pass out grades. At least one of his “pupils” is inspired to question not only the analysis but the motivations of the “teacher.”

His basic complaint seems to be that the Young Radicals lack a sense of history, and that many of the symposium responses are self-centered to the exclusion of political co...