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...only did we fail to forge alliances, we could not even center on the issues around which we would struggle. The conflict lacked definition, and so the climax, and hence resolution, never even appeared. Gene, so pallid and pathetic after Bella's explosive challenge, mumbled on of Consequences and their Causes and Consequences being one. And smiled in appreciation of his own scholastic...
...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...
...attendance figures, were a big question mark, and the organizers on the Teach-In Committee worried. They needn't have. For crowds of people crammed into Sanders Theatre Monday night, overflowing into other lecture halls. They came to see Eugene McCarthy, in silverpointed elegance. They came to hear Bella Abzug and TomWicker and Noam Chomsky and the rest of the star-studded cast. Vietnamization had pushed the spectre of death away from their side, and sophisticated news management, trickling pre-invasion news from Laos to avoid the Cambodia-style bang and squelching further reports to starve popular criticism, had threatened...
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...
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...