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...interpretation, widespread in Germany, blames the isolation, extreme leftism and us-them mentality of the country's universities for at least the climate in which the terrorism developed. At the universities, says Stanley Rothman, a political scientist at Smith College, leftists took charge so effectively in the late '60s that they created "a tight little world, remote from the increasing disapproval of the society, where the students were able to act out their fantasies." Although radical leftists remain a minority (perhaps 20%) among student and faculty, they exercise disproportionate control because of their activism. A much larger segment...
...Rothman and S. Robert Lichter. a postdoctoral fellow in psychology and politics at Yale, think that West German terrorism results not only from the radicalization of the German university but from the continued authoritarianism of the German family. In parallel studies of 1,500 American and German students, Rothman and Lichter discovered that radicals in both countries had similar family backgrounds: fathers they saw as stern and punitive, mothers as distant and cold. Says Lichter: "The essence of the relationship was reduced to respect for the parent because of his power, rather than love." At the same time, a whole...
...need more parking," says Rothman. "Already, we've lost big stores like Almy's and Kresge's, and without good parking facilities any improvements around here will be pipe dreams...
...Rothman looks at the situation in a somewhat different way. "Rent control has ruined this city," he says. "Something's got to be done about that first, before anything else...
...even Rothman exudes a spot of optimism. "Central Square will never go down; I've spent 30 years here, and the place has come up, gone down, and then come up again," he explains...