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Farnsworth served as a member of the Commission headed by Archibald Cox '34, Williston Professor of Law, which inquired into the causes of the student rebellion at Columbia in 1968. He has headed the University Health Services since 1954, and will be replaced next year by Dr. Warren E. C. Wacker...
...discussion of the American feminist movement is contained under the rubric of "bitter women [calling] you to rebellion." And her detailing of it shows little comprehension of the wide popularity of consciousness-raising groups which have done more than anything else to propagate the women's movement...
...fancy theory to point the way to education. People learn best when driven by curiosity or necessity, a sheer "need to know." Formal schooling aims to create that desire on a mass scale. But when schooling is compulsory, what it often creates is apathy and boredom, an invitation to rebellion...
Some Democratic Senators were so nettled by the President's secretiveness that they suspected that the whole agreement was merely a ruse to gain support for continued spending on ABM. Their rebellion is explained less by neo-isolationism than by their growing sense of impotence in foreign policy making (see TIME ESSAY). Nixon might have spared himself considerable trouble if he had let a few key Senators know what he was up to. Mansfield, for example, was rather vaguely informed only hours before the Senate vote...
...bitterly about the poor education her children are receiving. Then she adds: "I can't afford the private academy, so all I can do is try to find some way to help upgrade the teachers." A student at upper-class Northside High School in Atlanta describes a short-lived rebellion: "We threatened to walk out when the black kids started coming here, but our parents threatened to take our cars away from us if we did." In small-town Woodbury, a black cook summed up: "If I had just had the opportunity my child is getting, I would think somebody...