Word: birching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rally was sponsored by 24 Massachusetts citizens, most of whom are members of the John Birch Society. Organizations listed as "patriotic co-operators" included the Birch Society, the Young Americans for Freedom, the National Review, the Committee of One Million, the National Indignation Conventon, and the Brooklyn Tablet, organ of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brooklyn...
Featured speakers at the rally were Ezra Taft Benson, Secretary of Agriculture in the Eisenhower Administration, outgoing Rep. John Rousselot (R.-Calif.), now a full-time employee of the John Birch Society, Dr. Billy James Hargis of the Christian Crusade, and Thomas Anderson, editor of Farm and Ranch. The other speakers, such as Kent and Phoebe Courtney, New Orleans publishers, and Myers Lowman of Circuit Riders, Inc., are well know on the Right but not prominent nationally...
...Rousselot was introduced by Robert Welch, leader of the John Birch Society, who made a surprise appearance at the rally. Rousselot, now the Socioty's Western "District Governor", was defeated last year in his bid for reelection...
...comic Hercules of the evening is Bert Lahr, who performs six mighty comic labors in six parts. His funniest role: a senile ice-cream tycoon whose favorite political flavor is Birch. Lahr creases his wrinkles, crosses his eyes, and shows all of his time-honored wizardry with the japes and antics of burlesque...
...preoccupied with the child, immuring him for his own good in the highly disciplined boarding school of the 18th and 19th centuries. Writes Aries: "The solicitude of family, church, moralists and administrators deprived the child of the freedom he had hitherto enjoyed among adults. It inflicted on him the birch, the prison cell-in a word, the punishments usually reserved for convicts from the lowest strata of society. But this severity was the expression of a very different feeling from the old indifference: an obsessive love which was to dominate society from the 18th century...