Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hotel room may not be the best place to keep a little girl on a holiday, but Kyoko Ono, 5, daughter of Artist Yoko Ono, is delighted with the idea. She breezed into Montreal with her parents after her father, Beatle John Lennon, was refused entry into the United States because of a recent marijuana conviction in London. While the elder Lennons were spending ten days in bed as a "lie-in for peace," Kyoko put on a show of her own-hopping periodically from the bed, Teddy bear firmly in hand, grabbing handfuls of rose petals and throwing them...
...would be admitted from ghetto areas "without regard to grades." After tutoring, they could go on to earn degrees in perhaps six or eight years. A key goal: promoting hope and incentive in slum high schools. Arthur Bierman, a physics professor and faculty negotiator, who initially opposed the whole idea, was eventually sold by the student negotiators' sincerity. "Unlike the white radicals," he said, "they are trying to get into the system, not destroy...
Unfortunately, some participants in the free university movement are in danger of misinterpreting that idea. Those who see no difference between teachers and students in effect reject the intellectual hierarchy that is basic to learning. Teachers, after all, are supposed to know more than students. If both are "equal," the result is initially stimulating and ultimately numbing. Everyone goes his way-inward. At San Francisco State College, for example, the student committee that screens the shadow school's new courses has found itself dealing increasingly with "teachers" who cannot teach. Says Bill Talcott, a graduate student in English...
...white,/All are equal in Thy sight.' What is necessary is for us to really recognize one another as equals." A tentative resolution suggested that those who felt compelled to turn to violence should first ask themselves whether all possibilities of a peaceful protest had been exhausted. This idea was quickly rejected, and one speaker explained, rather apologetically, that its author was "an out-and-out pacifist...
While pacificism seemed outdated in London, the idea of reparations for past injustices was very much in style. Despite a few questions about who would control the money, the conference supported the proposal that churches compensate those who had been "exploited" by a capitalistic system. The Christian churches, the delegates reported, had "not only tolerated but also profited from" the system. Of all the meeting's decisions, this was perhaps the one of greatest practical concern to American clergymen. Ever since he disrupted a Sunday service at Manhattan's Riverside Church with his demand for $500 million...