Word: teach-in
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...Before the teach-in, we couldn't have known what support we had for doing other things." Martin Peretz, assistant professor of Social Studies, a teach- in organizer, and a key McCarthy backer in 1968, said in an interview. "Having a teach-in also shows that we are no longer willing to remain silent...
...MANY people would come? All week the Indochina Teach-In organizers had raised and dropped that question. There was no way of knowing. Since the Cambodia invasion last spring, no one had tried to stimulate the antiwar nerve on the campuses. Just last week. Time magazine had tossed its faded bouquet on the tomb of the campus movement. The campus had "cooled," Time reported. Students were no longer interested in politics: they were now engaged in "finding themselves." And while outside the universities pollsters were describing an apparent popular revulsion against the war, antiwar activists had no reason for optimism...
...teach-in attendance figures, were a big question mark, and the organizers on the Teach-In Committee worried. They needn't have. For crowds of people crammed into Sanders Theatre Monday night, overflowing into other lecture halls. They came to see Eugene McCarthy, in silverpointed elegance. They came to hear Bella Abzug and TomWicker and Noam Chomsky and the rest of the star-studded cast. Vietnamization had pushed the spectre of death away from their side, and sophisticated news management, trickling pre-invasion news from Laos to avoid the Cambodia-style bang and squelching further reports to starve popular criticism...
...were silent at the Monday teach-in. As soon as Bella Abzug, in a floppy orange hat, mounted the stage, the crowd began to clap. And the applause broke loose as McCarthy, hair gleaming, face grinning, strode to his seat. The applause quieted but the buzz remained; and the applause was always ready to burst free again. On the Queenfor-a Day popularity register, two sorts of remarks scored highest: the humorous and the radical. In her New York accent. Abzug-who twice raised a weak fist and pulled it down in hasty embarrassment-revealed that she "only went...
...POPULARITY of the humor and the radicalism was no accident: both were very entertaining. And the students who came to Sanders Theatre expected to be entertained. The teach-in was not the prelude to organized action; this was not a meeting to educate people so they could convert others. The teach-in excited people, but gave them no productive channels for their enthusiasm. The speakers shot their words into the void. The echo reverberated as applause...