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...thesis of these films that student violence can be explained away with an ounce of Spock, a pound of Kenniston, and a ton of Freud. Sex, fun and games: youth culture films attempt to portray student-police confrontation as the new campus sport. Students are heavily gassed inside an enclosed building but they can still run and sing for minutes and even gang up on an isolated policeman. The students cough: they bleed; they cry-but it is all razzle-dazzle ball and tonight they will exaggerate their battle wounds so they can sleep with the sexy chick or that...
...Tuesday I circulated a petition against the war in Viet Nam and later signed one against our local supermarket; on Thursday I listened to Simon and Garfunkel records while reading instructions for my self-cleaning oven; on Friday I read Dr. Spock's treatise on dissent in the morning, then checked his Infant and Child Care in the afternoon regarding the baby's rash; on Saturday night I discussed Soul on Ice with my baby sitter before going to a party where the only pot was the one my husband is developing...
...unpleasant," she recalls. She finally sold it to an obscure journal called Frontier for $40. Then she used the article as an outline for her book that became a bestseller in 1963, The American Way of Death. Miss Mitford has since written another book, The Trial of Dr. Spock, and turns out several magazine articles a year. She is currently preparing a piece for Saturday Review on the civil rights of prisoners. "I don't think of myself as a muckraker," she insists. "One just sort of falls into these articles...
...thoroughly comfortable with either. Many of us now feel quite at ease with pot, rock and permissive sex; many of us reject the youih culture categorically. Most of us, however, occupy the unhappy position of being undecided: we want to enjoy, but deep down in our pre-Spock psyches, we feel we shouldn't. We puff marijuana at parties when we would be happier with Scotch or gin; we don bell-bottoms when we would rather be in tweeds; we jump into affairs when we would rather be at home in bed-asleep. The visible result often...
...class was the last flourish of the old clitist Harvard in its pure form," says Mitchell Goodman '45, a codefendant with Doctor Spock in that 1968 draft evasion conspiracy trial. "The Abbott Lawrence Lowell conception of the gentleman-scholar was still taken seriously." Goodman was a scholarship student from public high school in Brooklyn. He was very impressed...