>He is remembering the golden age of UCB, when indeed there were
>fabulous professors, people who thought for themselves, and some who
>were radicalized by the great upheavals of the sixties. That is all gone now.
It's not *all* gone. We've been talking for a week or two, ever since Chuck saw Harvey lecture, about good things happening at UCB.
>Really. I get newsletters from the English dept at UCB that make me
>want to throw up.
I don't doubt that, but I'm usually left confused when people talk about radicalism in English departments because their influence seemed to me to be more a conservatizing canon creating one than otherwise. .