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...Federal Grand Jury that indicted Dr. Benjamin Spock last month got him on the wrong conspiracy. "Conspiracy to encourage young men to violate the Selective Service Act?" Big deal. The real conspiracy involves his book--Baby and Child Care--the paperback manual that helped bring up nearly every one of today's young radicals and anti-war agitators...
From birth, the "war babies" were reared according to Spock. He told their mothers how to diaper them, how to feed them, and--most important-- how to mold their soft little heads. Spock was clever. The indoctrination would be a slow process, he reasoned in 1946, when he wrote the book. But eventually, he knew he would have a whole generation thinking as he wanted, opposing...
...Clearly, Spock is scrambling some of this propaganda on purpose. The resistance (or, The Resistance) will, by persistence, actually encourage the movement (or, The Movement). Close readers of the text--true Spock ideologues--will be able to catch these subtleties, certainly of the same genre as so-called Marxist "inconsistencies...
...discussing the Spock-Coffin indictment in your article about conspiracy you quoted me as saying that the Government "would like to paint the picture of a widespread agreement, and that may be a realistic portrayal of the situation." You omitted the word "not," thereby altering significantly the thrust of my statement. What I said was ". . . and that may not be a realistic portrayal of the situation...
...drink-liquid food, perhaps. In any event, the nonreading category consists of two main classes, the "how-to" and the "self-help." After the Bible, whose varied editions and vast sales are beyond specific reckoning, the top sellers of all time among all books (see box) are Dr. Benjamin Spock's The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care and the Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book...