Word: spock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remain good friends. Former Senator Paul Douglas insists that Humphrey has suffered "no corruption of his spirit. He is still the essentially progressive nontotalitarian liberal." Douglas also argues that Humphrey has been instrumental in liberalizing Lyndon. "It has not been a one-sided affair," he says. Even Dr. Benjamin Spock, a leading antiwar activist, pronounces Humphrey the best of the three candidates, except on Viet Nam, and says that he mistrusts Kennedy's "ambition...
There are many reasons-economic, social, educational-for the current activism of students. More than any prior generation, they are children of permissive parents, and the Spock marks are showing. Today's young are used to having their complaints acted on instantly. "They are the babies who were picked up," notes Harvard's David Riesman. They have less direction than previous generations, are challenged by their parents to think for themselves. For all the rather exaggerated talk of the generation gap, American student activists tend not so much to defy their parents as to emulate them. And their...
Readers of Pravda's reports know him well as a bitter critic of U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. And soon they'll get the word from Dr. Benjamin Spock, 65, on a different subject-namely Baby and Child Care. The handbook that made the good doctor a fortune (20 million copies to date) is being published in Russian-which may bring more nyets than da, da, das once Russian mothers get a load of what he says. Spock advises light garments and laying babies on their stomachs, but Russian mothers swaddle infants tightly and set them on their...
Long ago we marched to Washington and the Pentagon with Norman Mailer and Dr. Spock. And there was blood on our heads. And we sat. up all night on the steps. And we were alone. And long ago we sat down in Mallinckrodt Hall and held a little old man prisoner for hours and they put us on probation to please the Boston Globe. That was so long...
...Benjamin Spock and four co-defendants charged with conspiring in illegal activities against the draft will go to trial...