Word: playpens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most curious experiment in public entertainment-a theater without a stage show, a cabaret without food or liquor, a party without an occasion. To its proprietor, a 25-year-old former talent agent named Ruflfin Cooper, Cerebrum is "an electronic studio of participation." Others have called it a "psychedelic playpen" and a "McLuhan geisha house." However defined-and perhaps it can't be-Cerebrum is an experience...
After the war, as veterans of 25 to 30 years of age came onto the campus, the custodial role became gradually modified. Until recently, the University has tried to provide a wide framework for the exchange of all ideas and nearly all kinds of behavior. It builds a big playpen for all of us to roam around...
...relationship between the University and the students is reaching a crisis. The traditional liberal playpen is irrelevant. Harvard is, however reluctantly, supporting the war and the draft by its actions. It is neither politically nor morally neutral. It could not be if it wanted. Those days are over now. Meanwhile, educational policy is being disrupted (How can we justify ranking students for Selective Service but refuse to go along with the NCAA's guidelines on grading?), and worse, students are being snatched out of school for their beliefs...
Second, students are asking the University to tear down all the playpen fences. School, they contend, should be reduced to a place where one takes his studies, and no more. The University should not restrict students at all. One evidence of this school of thought is the movement to abolish parietals. Another is the contention of some that the University should not protect them from outside police and should not place them in double jeopardy either...
Even now, Mehta-like several of his generation-has an impressive body of achievements to justify his defiant reply to the doubting voices of tradition: "Some people treat us as if we were still kids in the playpen. All of us have already done enough to be more highly regarded than that. I think we will be as great as the generation of Furtwängler and Toscanini...