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...disappointment and disgust-for despair was much too passive to survive the night-the "Teach-In" held its lessons. Bella Abzug brought with her enough good-natured fury to turn even the hisses and bullshits into calls of affirmation. Chomsky exhibited a quiet knowledgeability that one found refreshingly reassuring. Cynthia Fredericks spoke with concern instead of rhetoric. Perhaps these then were the people who could lead us form the hall...
Others filled Memorial Hall and part of Lowell Lec to hear former Sen. Eugene McCarthy, Rep. Bella Abzug (D-N.Y.), New York Times columnist Tom Wicker and six other official speakers declaim against American policy in Southeast Asia. Others listened on WGBH radio. Harvard station WHRB broadcast the Beanpot hockey game...
Another well received speech was Abzug's, which started the evening. She said Nixon was convinced that "You are all majoring in apathy." Someone in the crowd yelled, "bull-shit," and Abzug replied, "That's right. If I believed that, I wouldn't be here...
...hatchet in the other, gray eyes bright with balefire." When he protests to chic Radical Chick Gloria Steinem that he doesn't know what Women's Lib has against him. she tells him tartly: "You might try reading your books some day." Manhattan Congresswoman Bella Abzug adds: "We think your views on women are full...
Other speakers at the Harvard Teach-In will be: James C. Thomson, former staff member of the National Security Council and now assistant professor of History; Bella Abzug, the flamboyant Democratic Congresswoman from New York; Stanley Hoffmann, professor of Government; Walter Pincus, former staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Cynthia K. Frederick, former Harvard teaching fellow and recent visitor to North and South Vietnam...