ULR five autumn 1958

Editors Stuart Hall, Gabriel Pearson, CONTENTS Ralph Samuel, Charles Taylor Business Manager 3 Editorial Janet Hase Cover design 4 The Habit of Violence : Notting Hill Documents Germano Facietti 5 An Open Letter To The Congress of Cultural Freedom Cover photograph Roger Mayne Typography Planning For Human Needs VV. A. Hampton 1 The Real Outrage — Gordon Redfern All editorial and business communications 11 Alienation and Community — Charles Taylor The Business Manager, Mrs. Janet Hase, 18 One New Town — John Harlow 7 Carlisle Street, London, W.I 20 Impressions of Two New Towns — Janet Hase and others (PAR 1630) 24 Glasgow Adolescents — Greta Duncan and Roy Wilkie Advertising communications 26 A Sense of Classlessness — Stuart Hall Melville Hardiment, 35 Queensborough Terrace, London, W.2 Mass Communications Universities and Left Review Club 32 BBC and ITV After Three Years — Richard Hoggart Chairman 36 The Lively Medium ? — Audrey and Kit Coppard Stuart Hall 39 Report From A Country School — Brian Jackson Secretaries Michael Segal 42 The Press The People Want — Raymond Williams (CUN 0434) 47 Social Constraints and Academic Freedom — Norman Birnbau Sheila Benson (PRI6526) Treasurer The Welfare State Bernard Charles 53 The Controllers — Michael Barratt-Brown All communications to the Secretaries 62 The Economics of Prosperity — Norman MacKenzie 7 Carlisle Street, London, W.I 67 New Authoritarianism — New Left — Ralph Samuel The Partisan ULR Coffee House 70 A Culture In Common — Graham Martin The Left Book Centre 7 Carlisle Street (REG 7649) 75 The Mass Persuaders : Advertising 79 The Algebra Of The Revolution — Alasdair MacIntyre American distribution B. De Boer, 80 A Piece of Revelation : Zhivago — Michael Kullmann 102 Beverly Road, Bloomfield, New Jersey, U.S.A. 82 Twelve Painters — Mary Turner

- an independent termly for university UNIVERSITY LIBERTARIAN anarchists, rationalists and humanists Past issues (all still available except No. 1) have contained articles on Godwin (No. 3), Proudhon (No. 4), Fourier (No. 5) and Herzen (No. 6) by GEORGE WOODCOCK ; TONY GIBSON on the Grey Generation (No. 2); the Northern Fifty-One Society's broadcast discussion on public and personal morality, opened by ALEX COMFORT (No. 2) ; COLIN WARD on being too big (No. 4); YOTI LANE on sex and society (Nos. 3 and 4); J. HENRY LLOYD on the Semantics of Rationalism and Humanism (No. 5) ; WALLACE HAMILTON on My Hard Life with the Berkeley Cops (No. 3); PETER WOODS' premarital confessions, Sex and the Unmarried (No. 6); GEOFFREY OSTERGAARD on Anarchism and Trade Unionism (No. 4) and Sovereignty (No. 5); GEORGE MOLNAR on Anarchy and Utopia (No. 5) ; L. A. BURMAN on Blake's Prophetic Books (No. 6); LEOPOLD KOHR on Trial by Lust (No. 6) ; EDWARD ROUX on Academic Freedom in South Africa (No. 5) and others. IN NUMBER SEVEN KARL WALTER reminisces about Kropotkin ; J. HOWARD replies to PETER WOODS with some autobiography from the woman's angle ; GEORGE WOODCOCK presents a new assessment of the General Strike of 1926 ; RAYMOND SOUTHALL reviews recent Radical poetry ; HARRY BAECKER tries to reconcile Freedom and Technology ; YOTI LANE tells a true story ; DAVE SHIPPER and TONY BRIERLEY send news of the movements here and abroad ; and the tale is told of the ' Lucifer' affair at Leicester. All issues: Is. (by post, Is. 2d.—17 cents) Subscription to 6 issues: 7s. or $1.00 (can include any back issues) Six copies or more: 9d.—12 cents Sale or return if desired from V. MAYES, 13 BANNERMAN AVENUE, PRESTWICH, MANCHESTER

Autumn book list

Conviction The Gravy Train Second Chorus Edited by Norman Mackenzie 18s Edmund Ward 15s Humphrey Lyttelton 15s ' The most stimulating, heartening and ' This book is strongly recommended, ' Takes jazz seriously but never runs into intelligent manifesto to come from the particularly for its caustic dialogue and absurdity. Packed with perception and Left for a very long time indeed.' Econo- wit.' Times Literary Supplement. ' The sound sense.' Sunday Times. ' In litera- mist. ' I cannot imagine that anybody, pomposity, hospitality and friendliness of ture, as in music, Humph has style, in- whatever his political views, will read it Joe's American friends are most happily telligence, and considerable personality. without profit.' Sunday Times. observed. Mr. Ward excels at this kind of He is, in fact, a natural writer and quietly sardonic portraiture.' The Times. raconteur. New Statesman. The Good Lion Honey and Gall Len Doherty 18s Idle on Parade Emmanuel d'Astier 15s ' Very good indeed . . . excellent descrip- William Camp 15s tions of action,boxing matches,dance-hall This novel traces the lives of Antoine and rough-houses, and a pit accident. Mr. 'Extremely funny.' JOHN BETJEMAN, Daily- Nadiejda against the historical back- Doherty is a born writer and plainly a man Telegraph. ' Very funny — life in a ground of the last forty years. We meet of great intelligence.' New ^Statesman. Guards regiment as seen by a quietly them first as children ; in Paris between ' Gets to grips with the sort of life that unmilitary man who prefers girls to arms the wars ; and finally, married with the people really live.' Manchester Guardian. drill.' Observer. ' Wodehouse on the drill- coming of peace. square.' Daily Mail. 'A genuinely funny book that reads itself.' New Statesman. River Giant Olaf Godfrey Lias 18s Roger Curel i5s Crossing the Line The true life adventure story of a modern ' Much of the savage charm of Africa Viking who has sought adventure all is captured in this story of two French- Claud Cockburn 18s over the world. men and an African who unite to destroy ' The most engaging of historians, the a huge, almost mythical, hippopotamus. most persuasive of story-tellers, the live- The pursuit of the animal is incidental to liest political gad-fly of an age.' Times a powerful description of the life and Literary Supplement. ' Vintage Cockburn; customs of the people of Central Africa.' astringently witty, sardonically perceptive, Times Weekly Review. the prose a delight to read.' Sunday Times.

RAYMOND WILLIAMS Culture and Society 1780-1950

The author is concerned with the idea of culture as it has developed in Britain during this period, ' culture' being considered throughout in terms of social relations as well as in its purely artistic sense. He traces the growth of this idea through Burke, Cobbett, the Romantic poets, J. S. Mill, Carlyle, Arnold, Ruskin, Shaw, Lawrence, Eliot, Tawney, and the Marxist critics.

' An intelligent and sensitive critic ... a remarkable combination of human sympathy and analytic severity ' New Statesman ' Full of challenging ideas ' The Times ' Brilliantly intelligent ... a good critic and also an original thinker ' Sunday Times ' Clear and stimulating ' Manchester Guardian 30s. net

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