The Case for Silence
Everyone is supposed to know that the younger generation is “silent” (i.e., conformist, security-conscious, drab, unexciting), and along comes The Unsilent Generation (Rinehart $2.95) which, judging by the title and the rather confused introduction of its editor, claims to be proof to the contrary. Professor Otto Butz teaches history at Princeton University, and last spring got the idea of approaching a dozen students who struck him as “more or less ordinary Princeton seniors” to write (anonymously) essays on themselves and their view of things. Eleven of them obliged; the result is The Unsilent Generation.
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