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...general, Bios believes parents should set limits, affirm their personal values, deny the "clamor for grown-up status," and refuse to be intimidated by charges of authoritarianism. That is bound to cause family tensions, he says, but antagonism between parent and adolescent is normal and even necessary. Without conflict, Bios believes, there is no growth...
...Will that approach work? Some businessmen affirm that controls aimed at large companies and unions would effectively hit smaller ones as well. Says Maurice F. Krug, president of Technology Inc., a firm involved in photographic research: "Kodak is our biggest competitor, and they don't even know we exist. But we have to base our prices on theirs...
...demarcation between NAC and Weatherman, which had never been precise, blurred through the Spring of 1970. NAC sponsored a riot in Harvard Square following the April 15th Moratorium. The political goal of breaking all those windows in Harvard Square, if there was any at all, must have been to affirm with some violent deed the words, "Solidarity with the Vietnamese." Dick wrote a piece the day before the action in Harvard Square called, "Stay in the Streets." He wrote...
...conference-sponsored by the Boston chapter of Scientists and Engineers for Social and Political Action (SESPA)-the scientists will affirm their "opposition to the war in Southeast Asia and their commitment to the use of science for people rather than against people...
...Affirm the Libido. Most of The Female Eunuch is a thorough exegesis of the tenets of Women's Lib-exaggerated, unreasonable, but written with passion, wit and a bottomless supply of earthy words from centuries back.* Though Greer is erudite, her book is far less intellectual than Kate Millett's Sexual Politics, with its long, scholarly analyses of Mailer, Lawrence, Miller and Genet. Greer is more interested in the popular press, which she combs for illustrations of her thesis. To her, woman has become a eunuch, a poor creature castrated and forced into passivity by men, who have...