The feelings of organization men, of lawyers or Madison Avenue professionals, of civil servants at the higher levels—intelligent but powerless people—are not very different, at this moment, from those of writers on whom the shades of the universities have fallen. Such people, often thwarted, resentful, perplexed and fatigued by the incessant demands on the intellect and feelings, respond to the vivid gesture of emancipation, defiance, illusionlessness, the spirit of skepticism and dissent. But it is only the manner that is radical. Few things can be safer, more success-assuring, than this
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