Word: teach-in
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...came away from Monday night's teach-in with one aggregate image of all the speakers which still sticks in my mind. Amid the anachronistic panelled pomposity of Sander's Theatre a small voice was screaming. "Do something." The situation seemed strikingly ironic at first: Prominent politicians, journalists, educators-people with a great deal of what traditionally constitutes power in our society-yelling at us (yelling at me) to do something...
...void may be less than vacuum-tight. The press was at this teach-in; the press will be at all the teach-ins across the nation. So will most of the peace candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination. Lindsay, Muskie, Clark, McGovern, Bavh, Gardner, Hughes-and. of course, McCarthy. The New York Times account of the Harvard teach-in didn't mention the name of another speaker at the meeting; the entire article was devoted to McCarthy. Although typically coy, McCarthy made clear his desire to win the nomination. "This is not a rerun of what happened...
...TEACH-IN demonstrated the further fragmentation of the peace movement. At planning meetings, the Teach-In Committee discussed the SDS Threat. SDS had asked for a speaker; its request was rejected. And then, the Committee members-largely Peace Action and Social Studies types-worried about a possible reaction. So, five days before the teach-in, a Committee member telephoned Bob Lavietas, past president of the Young Republicans, and asked if he could help provide marshals. And that's how 15 Young Republicans, along with several huge Mather and Eliot students recruited the night before, wound up as the anti...
...choice of speakers was the major terrain for radical-liberal struggles. Visiting a February 18 Teach-In Committee meeting, after seven speakers had been chosen at previous sessions, Mark Ptashne, Lecturer in Biomhecistry and radical war critic, asked that Noam Chomsky be invited to speak. Most students supported the suggestion: one dissenter thought Chomsky's "ideological position would turn a lot of people off." The students voted to invite Chomsky before the two Faculty members of the group-Peretz and James Thomson, assistant professor of History-arrived at the meeting. Both were lukewarm but willing to invite Chomsky; however, trading...
...TEACH-IN trickled on with questions at the end; students dribbled out steadily. At a Yale teach-in that night, and at other teach-ins across the country on other nights, the events would be duplicated. Students would be excited, but they would be given nothing to do. Yes, President Nixon would see that the campuses were not silent; but the sounds of empty words at teach-ins frighten him no more than do the thud and tinkle of shattered shopfront windows. Action alone impresses him-Eactionalized and paranoid, the Left has been unable to coordinate meaningful action. Marches...