Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...fast that parents might well return to teaching wisdom rather than facts that soon become obsolete. Tom Winship, father of four and editor of the Boston Globe, believes that for the past ten years the nation's children have provided the "energy and courage" for most social progress: civil rights, campus reform, ecology, withdrawal from Viet Nam. But many have also been stunningly naive about drugs, the dangers of violence, the values of work and excellence. "It's fun to be responsive to our kids," says Winship. "They can teach us something?but so can we teach them a hell...
Harte and his activist wife Janet, a New Englander who serves on the Texas Civil Rights Commission, have gone on to espouse locally unpopular causes like pollution control for oil companies. "That paper is the Pravda of South Texas," snorts one conservative lawyer. Harte has even recovered from his initial dismay at discovering that Chris played a major role in persuading Stanford to create a coed dormitory. "The kids were more orderly and serious about their studies, so I've changed my mind." Even so, Harte is still cool about some of Chris's other passions, such as the film...
When a recent Bickel article in the New Republic asserted that coercive governmental integration policies on a massive scale would not work and should be stopped, the professor's critics mounted an angry counterattack. "Oh, Professor Bickel's position is just dandy," said Civil Rights Attorney Marian Edelman. "Just let him explain it to all those black kids who remain in segregated schools." Lumping his colleague with John Mitchell, Spiro Agnew and Strom Thurmond, Yale's Professor Fred Rodell wrote that "The dominant domestic policy of this antediluvian league is to liquidate the work of the Warren...
...when the station's ad director sarcastically offered him a list of WJXT's customers "so I could hit them systematically instead of one by one." The herd kept pressing, and several weeks ago Thompson was fired for doing his job too well. "I've covered civil rights marches and jail riots," says the bewildered Young Goodman Thompson, who also picked up 18 decorations in Viet Nam. "But this conservation thing is the one that really scared the hell...
Married. Roger Mills, 24, a white civil rights law clerk for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund; and Berta Linson, 24, a black Jackson State College student whom he met while working in the L.D.F.'s local office a year ago; he for the first time, she for the second; in a nondenominational ceremony in Jackson, Miss., the first legally sanctioned interracial marriage in the history of that state...