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...stand for what the Constitution stands for, which is everyone equal under the law." He advised the crowd: "Sit out this election." As if anticipating what Muskie would say, he declared: "You are going to hear a lot of stuff, a lot of platitudes, about apple pie and motherhood. That's fine. But does it bring any sort of qualitative change? No!" Yet later, as Muskie praised American youth for "jogging our institutions," Brody nodded up at him and said to a bystander: "If they would do this more often, there wouldn't be all the really radical...
HOUSE COURSES have been the Harvard equivalent of motherhood and apple pie. Everyone knows that hordes of students apply to get into them and that tutors teach them with religious enthusiasm. And to those who complain that the lecture system is impersonal and often ineffective, administrators can hold up house courses as evidence that Harvard is, after all, a progressive institution academically...
...that the author denies morality, motherhood, love, sex, and personality through women; it is not that he cannot see purposefulness, friendship, dignity and honor in his men. It is that we must accept his insistence on the lonely Enderby, dedicated to poetry because there is nothing else he can be dedicated to, as our only point of reference, as the fixed center of consciousness. Looking with Enderby's eyes we are forced to abandon the old philosophical principle of the duality of good and evil. We find a new duality, an immediate polarity between body -- including brain -- and non-body...
...early age, we could make some real progress toward eliminating the evils associated with poverty. Children must develop in something other than a degenerating social and physical environment if they are not to degenerate. True, institutionalization of the young is a threat to the concept of the sanctity of motherhood. But gad! Where in the hovels TIME describes is the validity of this concept...
...give today's young protesters pause to discover that way back in 1943 this chap Wylie was throwing verbal Molotov cocktails at authority, the church, motherhood, scientists and economists. His book Generation of Vipers, written in a mood of "ribaldry and rage," became a famous bestseller. True, it did not inspire street riots or start campus revolutions, but at least it gave aid and comfort to thousands of as yet un-Freudianized young men and women who wanted to reject their mothers...