3 Quotes & Sayings By Jack Newfield

Jack Newfield was the founder of the first alternative newsweekly, the Village Voice, in 1963. He was also the author of books, including Newfield's Follies, and numerous articles on politics and the arts. He was an advocate for independent writing and publishing.

The goal of radicalism is to improve the human condition,...
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The goal of radicalism is to improve the human condition, not to prove one's own moral superiority. Jack Newfield
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A study of the San Francisco Beat enclave by psychiatrist Dr. Francis Rigney in the late 1950's showed 60 percent "were so psychotic or crippled by tensions, anxiety and neurosis as to be nonfunctional in the competitive world." In contrast, the several studies released so far made of the student radicals at Berkeley show them to be stable, serious, and of above-average intelligence. The point is that the Beats had to "cop out" of the Rat Race because they couldn't perform; the New Left chooses to reject a society it could easily be successful in. Jack Newfield