Word: writings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rebellion becomes non-cerebral, sensate, lacking the ideal of the continental student. Everybody talks at once, tries to épater la bourgeoisie with obscenities and refuses "work" courses, where reading replaces talk off the tops of many heads. McLuhan says we're postliterate anyway, so why read and write? Even hippiedom is huckstered. In short, white liberals are too busy feeling and emoting to change much of anything. Even their rebellious life styles feed the affluent pop consumer culture. Perhaps the blacks, being hungrier, can discipline themselves a bit better and do us all some good...
...question before the ladies and gentlemen of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society was: Who should write the introduction for a proposed booklet on the nation's Capitol? No problem, reported the Society's historian: Arthur Schlesinger Jr. had already been approached and had accepted. No problem, indeed, snorted Melvin Payne, president of the National Geographic Society. "I think you could have made a much better choice with very little effort. I don't like it." But, countered one of his colleagues, Schlesinger is a noted historian and Pulitzer prizewinner aside from having been a special assistant...
Where Freud went wrong, the authors contend, was in interpreting the sexuality of children with grown-up eyes. "It is dangerous to assume," they write, "that because some childhood behavior appears sexual to adults, it must be sexual." Parents who catch a young child playing with his genital organs will instinctively define the act as masturbation; to the child, the experience may well be a nonsexual experience of bodily discovery. Nonetheless, the child is taught, directly or indirectly, that certain activities are sexual in nature as soon as he is considered mature enough to absorb the lesson...
...court Judge Edward Lawrence conceded that her motive had been a moral one. But he was not inclined to minimize her offense. "People may commit murder in the heat of passion," he said, "but that doesn't excuse murder. People may write obscenity for various reasons, but that doesn't excuse obscenity." While the state charge against her was dropped, Mrs. Timbrook pleaded guilty to violating the local ordinance. She faces penalties of up to 90 days in prison and $500 fine at her sentencing next month. Eady, who comes to trial next month, is not likely...
...December issue of An Lac, a Saigon magazine, another professor, Mr. Nguyen Binh Tuyen, risked imprisonment to write the following...