The Seventies theory explosion [i. e., Literary theory, deconstruction, etc.] was a panic reaction by headlocked pedants unable to cope with the emotional and sensory flux of the Sixties. It was a desperate search for new authority, new dogma.

p. 218 - Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) - Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf