SLSL Intro "Chicago School"

[barbara100 at jps.net]

> >>> The success of the "new left" later in the '60s was to be limited by
the
> >>> failure of college kids and blue-collar workers to get together
> >>> politically.  One reason was the presence of real, invisible class
force
> >>> fields in the way of communication between the two groups."  (SL, 7)

From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
> There's no explicit indication that he "wished" anything of the sort in
this
> particular quote. He's just telling it like it was.

I might agree with you but for the "way of communication between the groups"
statement.  A man like him, a master communicator--how could he NOT want the
two groups to communicate?

At the simplest level it had to do with language.  We were encouraged from
many directions--[...]--to see how at least two very distinct kinds of
English could be allowed in fiction to coexist. Allowed! It was actually OK
to write like this! Who knew? The effect was exciting, liberating, strongly
positive. It was not a case of either/or, but an expansion of possibilities.
(SL, 6)

Then a line or two later he talks about the "new left." He wanted the two
groups to communicate alright.  And had they communicated, they would have
succeeded.  Everybody wishes to "succeed."