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POSTWAR BABIES are indebted to Dr. Spock. In an era of strict childbearing, he intervened for us, pleaded for fewer spankings and more parental affection. But now that we are getting a grown-up version of those spankings- Clubbings, gassings, jailing- Dr. Spock's political interventions in our behalf are futile. When he spoke in defense of draft resistance, he too was indicted...
Despite the vigorous self-confidence of Spock's new book, Decent and Indecent, self-doubt and despair creep in. In these moments Spock bemoans the futility of rearing well adjusted babies who will be incinerated by a sick society. Unspoken is his personal despair that Spock the activist can't wield the power of Spock the psychiatrist/pediatrician. He changed childbearing practices but can't stop...
...book is comprised of five tenuously linked sections, held together by Spock's assurance that they are related. They all deal with the psychoanalytic etiology of problems in America: feeling of individual worthlessness. Sex and sex roles, obscenity, the war, politics, and education. Each ailment is dealt with separately, isolated from all the other ailments. There is no cohesive diagnosis of America's ills...
...Leary family plans to appeal both cases and has already begun proceedings. Michael Standard, a defense attorney for Dr. Benjamin Spock, will handle the appeal stemming from the carlier conviction...
...continued assaults of the resistance movement on the draft system may cause it to collapse before long, Michael Ferber, co-defendant of the Spock trial, said yesterday...