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...give any importance to anything other than academics when they talk about their college years. "It is still the most important things I ever did." says Beth Anne Bowman Hess, who in 1970 got a Ph.D. in Sociology from Rutgers. "It stamped me as an intellectual I don't think any women in the 40s was ever challenged intellectually as I was during those years...
...very cloistered existence." Hess says, although she adds that many women she knew had the idea that they were going to change the world. Saving the world, she says, was "a generalized, diffuse possibility" with no direct career implications. "It was a pretty cool abstract idea, something you to do with your head. It had nothing to do with social movements of any kind," she says. "The idea of any group concern was totally alien...
...Amerada Hess, Atlantic Richfield, British Petroleum, Exxon, Mobil, Phillips, Sohio and Union...
True Believer. Hess's nonconformist life-style leaves him plenty of time for thinking and writing. He offers no excuses for his philosophical flipflop, which he sees as a natural response to the growth of big government in America. "It's not just the war," he says. "I'm as opposed to the welfare state as I am to the warfare state. The Government is doing everything that the Declaration of Independence said you should resist," he says. Like the British, the Government "is sending hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their...
...Hess's articles of faith that the Government should be radically reduced as well as reorganized. "I also think the public school system is a failure and prudent people should abandon it." Not by violence, however. Anarchists like the 19th century Frenchmen FranÇois Ravachol, and Edouard Vaillant who tossed a bomb into the National Assembly, assumed that bombs and bullets would be necessary to free mankind. Hess, who has been arrested three times for participating in an antiwar demonstration, is willing to forgo force in favor of example. Like many a true believer, he is convinced that...