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...Washington of 45,000 people, each bearing the name of a war fatality. The organizers say that 400 colleges will participate in the Moratorium Day, with students boycotting classes to hold mass teach-ins, distribute antiwar leaflets in neighborhoods, turn in their draft cards. One peace leader, Dr. Benjamin Spock, dismissed the troop-withdrawals as "frauds, sops to the American people and attempts to deceive us." It was standard protest rhetoric, but the outspoken Spock touched a deep worry in the Administration when he declared that "the peace movement helped oust Johnson -now a new President must be taught again...
This same kind of delicacy and shame has forced an almost awesomely destructive set of sexual attitudes upon us. Whole generations of Americans were taught that their natural processes were unspeakably vulgar and, as everyone from Freud to Spock discovered and proved, these repressions forced all kinds of personal and social disorders upon us. Europeans have always laughed at us as "those people who only make love in the dark...
...nation's antiwar and antidraft protesters, the decision rendered last week in Boston by the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals was a less than resounding victory. True, the court over turned the year-old convictions of Dr. Benjamin Spock and Harvard Graduate Student Michael Ferber on charges that they conspired to aid, abet and counsel draft registrants to violate the Selective Service law. Author Mitchell Goodman and Yale Chaplain the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, who were convicted on the same conspiracy charges, were granted retrials. From the dissenters' view point, however, the cases had been...
...Spock and Ferber were acquitted be cause the Appeals Court ruled that the Government had simply not proved its case of conspiracy against them. Good man and Coffin were granted retrials on a legal technicality. But the First Amendment was held to be no bar to their prosecution for conspiracy...
...poet has not only the chameleon's ability to change the color of his verse to fit the subject but that wizard lizard's faculty of independently focusing each eye. The left Lowell eye may be modishly on the topical-Che Guevara, police, R.F.K., student riots, Dr. Spock. But the right eye glints backwards to Agamemnon, Sir Thomas More, Napoleon, King David, Adam. "I am learning to live in history," Lowell writes and adds, as his chameleon's tongue flicks out to ingest another aphorism: "What is history? What you cannot touch...