“The upstart rebel kids turn into dignified men and women, committed to the rights of their people, flying the flags and manning the barricades of a genuine revolution.”
Robert Mayer
This coverage of the events at City College is much more poetic, elegantly written and outwardly sympathetic to the demands of the protesters, described as the “children of poetry,” centering humanistic practice at the center of their demonstrations. Again, they are set in opposite with the engineering “sons of reason.”
There is also an element on this article that positions the protests on “the right side of history,” again linking the disciplines of the humanities to the events unfolding.
“And their silence seemed to be saying that the words with which we condemn the rebel students will soon be forgotten; but that their deeds will be honored by history in spite of us.”
Robert Mayer
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