Growing up absurd; problems of youth in the organized system. by Goodman, Paul, 1911-1972

Accidental activists : Mark Phariss, Vic Holmes, and their fight for marriage equality in Texas / by Collins, David, 1945 June-

Table of Contents: “…Growing up absurd -- Should we? or shouldn't we? -- The first blast of the trumpet -- The battle of New Orleans, part I: opening salvos: Louisiana and Mississippi -- The battle of New Orleans, part II: Texas engages -- Crossing the threshold -- Justice that arrives like a thunderbolt -- Backlash in Texas -- Epilogue -- Endnotes.…”
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Analyses of contemporary society. by Rosenberg, Bernard, 1923-1996

Table of Contents: “…Small town in mass society. Goodman, P. Growing up absurd. Silberman, C. E. Crisis in black and white.--[2] Ellul, J. …”

Myself when I am real : the life and music of Charles Mingus / by Santoro, Gene

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Introduction; Prologue: Better Get It in Your Soul; 1 Growing Up Absurd; 2 Black Like Me; 3 Making the Scene; 4 Life During Wartime; 5 Portrait of the Artist; 6 The Big Apple, or On the Road; 7 Pithecanthropus Erectus; 8 Mingus Dynasty; 9 Camelot; 10 The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady; 11 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest; 12 Beneath the Underdog; 13 Let My Children Hear Music; 14 Changes; 15 Don't Be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid, Too; Notes; Bibliography; Discography; Acknowledgments; Index.…”
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Shadows of doubt : negotiations of masculinity in American genre films / by Grant, Barry Keith, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Fields, Groucho Marx, and the emasculation of the American comic tradition -- Cock and bull story : Howard Hawks's Red river, professionalism, and the Western -- All shook up : the classic Hollywood musical, male desire, and the "problem" of rock 'n' roll -- Growing up absurd : shtick meets teenpic in The delicate delinquent -- "Cussers last stan'" : black masculinity in The cool world -- Of men and monoliths : science fiction, gender, and 2001 : a space odyssey -- Taking back the Night of the living dead : George Romero, feminism, and the horror film -- Rich and strange : economic performance anxiety and the yuppie horror film -- Man's favorite sport? …”

Shadows of doubt : negotiations of masculinity in American genre films / by Grant, Barry Keith, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Fields, Groucho Marx, and the emasculation of the American comic tradition -- Cock and bull story : Howard Hawks's Red river, professionalism, and the Western -- The classic Hollywood musical, male desire, and the "problem" of rock n' roll -- Growing up absurd : shtick meets teenpic in the delicate delinquent -- "Cussers last stan'" : black masculinity in the cool world -- Of men and monoliths : science fiction, gender, and 2001 a space odyssey -- Taking back The night of the living dead : George Romero, feminism, and the horror film -- Rich and strange : economic performance anxiety and the yuppie horror film -- Man's favorite sport? …”
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Vance Packard & American social criticism / by Horowitz, Daniel, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Growing up absurd: From Granville Summit to State College, 1914-1932 -- Starting out in the thirties: Penn State, 1932-1936 -- White collar: Columbia graduate school of journalism, Boston Daily Record, and Associated Press, 1936-1942 -- The man in the gray flannel suit: Darien, New Canaan and American Magazine, 1942-1956 -- The medium is the message: American magazine, 1942-1956 -- Making it: three best-sellers, 1957-1960 -- Marginal man: the emergence of an American social critic -- The lonely crowd: readers respond to The Hidden Persuaders, The Status seekers, and The Waste makers -- The crack in the picture window: the response of critics to the trilogy -- A station wagon driver in the suburb: Moralism and its contradictions -- Future shock, 1960-1968: The Pyramid climbers, The Naked society, and The Sexual wilderness -- The cultural contradictions of capitalism, 1969-1984: A Nation of strangers, The People shapers, and Our Endangered children -- Barbarians at the gate, 1984-1989: The Ultra Rich.…”
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A companion to Henry James /

Table of Contents: “…Bad years in the matrimonial market : James's shorter fiction, 1865-1878 / Clair Hughes -- What Daisy knew : reading against type in Daisy Miller : a study / Sarah Wadsworth -- Growing up absurd : the search for self in Henry James's The American / Wendy Graham -- Vital illusions in The portrait of a lady / Peter Rawlings -- The Bostonians and the crisis of vocation / Sarah Daugherty -- "The abysses of silence" in The turn of the screw / Kimberly C. …”

The Paul Goodman reader / by Goodman, Paul, 1911-1972

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The Sixties : art, politics and media of our most explosive decade /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Patriotism (from Growing up absurd) / Paul Goodman -- Culture and politics / C. …”

After Ireland : writing the nation from Beckett to the present / by Kiberd, Declan

Table of Contents: “…: Sáirséal agus Dill -- A parrot in Ringsend : Máire Mhac an tSaoi -- Growing up absurd : Edna O'Brien and The country girls -- Frank O'Connor : a mammy's boy -- Interchapter. …”
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Studies in law, politics, and society /

Table of Contents: “…The "Tort Reform" Narrative of NormalcyThe "Child Well-Being" Narrative of Normalcy; The "Organized Youth" Narrative of Normalcy; Growing Up Absurd: Voices Not Heard; The Untold Version of Abnormal; Conclusion -- Powerless and Speechless?…”
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