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CLIFFORD ADELMAN. Generations: A Collage of Youthcult. Pp. 321. New York : Praeger, 1972. $7.95. RUBEM A. ALVES. Tomorrow's Child: Imagination, Creativity, and the Rebirth of Culture. Pp. 210. New York: Harper & Row, 1972. $6.95

Of the two treatments Clifford Adelman’s is certainly the more entertaining, if for no other reason than his collection of interviews and statements by members of the youth cult. Mr. Adelman discusses three groups born between 1939 and 1954 and their progressive degeneration. Beginning with the alternatives of destruction or abandonment as seen in the counter-politics and counterculture movements, he traces the general disintegration of these two movements into a rhetoric of words ending in nihilism, the wasted efforts of the various communes, or, at best, the small craft businesses. The general dissatisfaction with the establishment has ended, not in a creative anarchy, but in a nihilism of meaningless efforts and expressions. In distinction to counterpolitics, which is outward or community oriented, the counterculture is basically inward or self-directed. The leaders inspire many imitators and finally commercialization through the media, which transforms elitist jargon into a commonality of expressions which, by the third generation, reflects no common goal. The children of 1954 are seen by Adelman as cut off from any form of creative effort, because the tools necessary for imaginative undertakings have been denied to them through a general countercultural condemnation of the perceptual and communication skills used by the establishment. With nothing more than hollow rhetoric and slogans, instead of concert language skills, the necessary initiative to attempt serious imaginative undertakings is also lost. Rather than to a creative future springing from original cultural and political efforts, Adelman looks forward to an ever deepening despair of mediocrity with the continued confusion between freedom and creative anarchy-a sort of nihilism which may well call forth right-wing totalitarianism. The counterculture finds itself cut off