The Un-silent Generation

It would be unfair to attribute folk-rock, hippies (both flowered and deflowered), gurus, free universities, acid heads and love-ins to one revolutionary book, called Baby and Child Care, written over twenty years ago. Even though Dr. Spock, its author, has lately himself not been willing, or able, to adjust to the Vietnam war and the system which sustains it, the intent of his book was not to create maladjustment or disorder. Besides that, Dr. Spock is over thirty, and therefore cannot be in the vanguard of the revolution.

But while Dr. Spock’s trial symbolized for many students, especially the vocal New Left, their total rejection of the “system” and its war, his book tries to create a totally different kind of attitude, a different kind of American family. The old Dr. Spock, on paper at least, was a father to all of us in this student generation.

JR

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John Rothchild

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It would be unfair to attribute folk-rock, hippies (both flowered and deflowered), gurus, free universities, acid heads and love-ins to one revolutionary book, called Baby and Child Care, written over twenty years ago. Even though Dr. Spock, its author, has lately himself not been willing, or able, to adjust to the Vietnam war and the system which sustains it, the intent of his book was not to create maladjustment or disorder. Besides that, Dr. Spock is over thirty, and therefore cannot be in the vanguard of the revolution.

But while Dr. Spock’s trial symbolized for many students, especially the vocal New Left, their total rejection of the “system” and its war, his book tries to create a totally different kind of attitude, a different kind of American family. The old Dr. Spock, on paper at least, was a father to all of us in this student generation.