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History being littered with the bodies of good men who did nothing, it is cheering to see one vital resistance movement getting under way while there may yet be time. “Tis of the struggle to be let alone that Professor Westin sings, and he makes an enthralling, sensible and superb- ly documented Aeneid out of it. Vance Packard, NR, Sen. Edward Long and the New York Times are among the heterogeneous heroes of this maquis. The villains are prying psychologists and sociologists, bug-happy and polygraphomaniac policemen, big-brotherly company personnel de- partments, and of course the dear old Federal Government. It is thirty years since James Thurber annihilated the fatuous and indecent en- quiries of psychologists in Let Your Mind Alone. Bourbon-like, the intruders have learnt nothing and forgotten only common sense.

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» BOOKS -ARTS: MANNERS« Bug-Happy Big Brother FERDINAND MOUNT

History being littered with the bodies of good men who did nothing, it is cheering to see one vital resistance movement getting under way while there may yet be time. “Tis of the struggle to be let alone that Professor Westin sings, and he makes an enthralling, sensible and superb- ly documented Aeneid out of it. Vance Packard, NR, Sen. Edward Long and the New York Times are among the heterogeneous heroes of this maquis. The villains are prying psychologists and sociologists, bug-happy and polygraphomaniac policemen, big-brotherly company personnel de- partments, and of course the dear old Federal Government. It is thirty years since James Thurber annihilated the fatuous and indecent en- quiries of psychologists in Let Your Mind Alone. Bourbon-like, the intruders have learnt nothing and forgotten only common sense.