Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American students tend to refuse the first two (of course, the Protestant ethic is dead) and cannot understand the third. Rebellion becomes non-cerebral, sensate, lacking the ideal of the continental student. Everybody talks at once, tries to épater la bourgeoisie with obscenities and refuses "work" courses, where reading replaces talk off the tops of many heads. McLuhan says we're postliterate anyway, so why read and write? Even hippiedom is huckstered. In short, white liberals are too busy feeling and emoting to change much of anything. Even their rebellious life styles feed the affluent pop consumer culture...
...with anguish as professors fled the increasingly-restrictive UC climate for Harvard and the East. If Pauley's plan were adopted, Hitch said, the University would have a hard time holding any of its faculty. Another administrator said that the Eastern colleges would chortle with perverse delight when they read of the plan...
Just having read Scott Jacob's reply to both letters Friday, I should like to observe that he was caught in a situation not of his making; I applaud his letter, which is not only accurate, but witty and much to the point. Ellen Cantarow
...true that first-year students are disturbed by the attitude of many faculty members, which is both paternalistic and insulting. Certain members of the faculty have been closed-minded from the beginning. One, for example, read to his class SDS literature which indicates that the issue of grade reform may be used as a catalyst to organize students for disruptive purposes...
Author Richard Brautigan will read selections from his published and unpublished works at 8:30 p.m. tonight in the Quincy House dining hall...