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Goodman goes on to treat a number of Harvard people as if they were members of a conspiracy. James Conant, Jerome Bruner, Graham Blaine, Dr. Resnick of the Ed School, and Dean Whitla from the Office of Tests all have a hand in enforcing in loco parentis, and putting on public relations. "The University," Goodman laments, "which should be the dissident and the poor has become the Establishment. The streets are full of its monks . . . What a bad scene. Its spirit pervades all of society...
...their skirts and men edged for cover, for all knew that Scandalous John was the meatiest waddie ever to ride out of the West-the 1960s West of tail-finned Cadillacs and fat farm subsidies, that is. Unhappily, his neighbors back home in New Mexico considered McCanless as loco as a headless road runner. He has embarked on history's last Long Trail Drive, across macadam highways and through skyscraper-canyoned cities at the head of his herd-which consists of one aged cow with a plastic window in her side...
...educational and social issues which affect them, in the hope that such concern will lead to creative action. The National Student Congress each summer serves the NSA's educational purposes by providing a forum for student opinion on important issues which face the student community--from in loco parentis and the House Committee on Un-American Activities to civil rights, the aims of education, and nuclear testing. Throughout the year, the national and regional NSA bodies conduct conferences and seminars on such issues as academic freedom, neo-colonialism, and race relations in north and south...
...songs are simple, and mostly they have a negative message." Writers who have the Aldon feel down pat can make $50,000 a year, tossing off 60 or so songs and counting on three or four hits among them. Gerry Coffin, the co-author of such works as The Loco-Motion and Go Away, Little Girl, is 23 and a master of teen feel. "Lyrics will hurt a song," he says, "if they're too adult, too artistic, too correct. You should shy away from anything deep or too happy. When I was a teenager, I noticed that whenever...
...Loco Motive. In Newark, Joseph Matthews, 43, lay down on a railroad track between the rails, slept soundly while an engine roared over him, was awakened and arrested for trespassing...