Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Time has been a big problem from the beginning. The CNCV didn't decide to launch a petition drive until the end of July, barely four months before the election. Another local peace group, Cambridge Vote on Vietnam, had been circulating an antiwar petition since February. But the CNCV disagreed with the ideology expressed in the other group's resolution...
...likely, but was not certain last night, that the City will appeal the decision to the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth. In all probability, the City Council will not adopt the antiwar resolution, since only last week it sent a similar petition to a death in committee...
Until recently, most of the opposition has come from intellectuals and the young, from college professors and clerics. But now the ranks have been swelled by apolitical businessmen and uneasy politicians eying the antiwar sentiment in the polls, thinking about 1968. Congress is in a rebellious mood, and the insurrection is fast spreading from Democratic ranks, where opposition to the war was previously centered, to the Republican side of the aisle. "The war is behind all of our problems," says a member of the House. "It's a millstone around our necks...
Unfortunately, the President's critics are scarcely more helpful when it comes to offering alternatives to his policies. Few go so far as Novelist Mary McCarthy, who insists that it is the duty of the antiwar intellectuals not to suggest ways to get out of Viet Nam gracefully-just to keep pounding away at Johnson to get out, period. "How this should be done," she wrote in her frankly biased account, Vietnam, "ought not to be the concern of those who oppose our presence there." A far different approach was adopted by Novelist John Updike, in a letter...
...atone for an occasional ensemble roughness. Its repertory is impressively varied, including several company-created works by Joffrey and Gerald Arpino that cover the field from delicate, classic grace (Viva Vivaldi, Pas des Déesses) to revivals of such historic works as Kurt Jooss's famous old antiwar shocker The Green Table...