Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power comes in part from a pair of peculiar structural strengths. Members like to think that the group is effective because its meetings are closed. Secret meetings, they say, keep splits within the group private and allow the HPC to avoid the abrupt and confused policy switches which have plagued the HUC. The HPC has no pretense of being a representative body. Its members aren't elected--they are appointed by house masters; and so the group includes a number of shrewd people who might never enter, much less win, a house committee election. They command respect and push...
...failure and states with pride, "We have probably made by now all the mistakes that can be made in programming?" Is that good? More to the point, is it necessary? I would claim not. I would suggest that intelligence and a highly developed self-critical faculty can very often avoid the necessity for learning by making all the mistakes that can be made. Louis J. Cutrona...
...more sober and responsible resisters stake their faith in the few cases where local draft boards, notified of a registrant's move to Canada before they have issued an order to report, have re-classified him I-Y in order to avoid unbecoming publicity. Others see the election of a benevolent President in 1968 or 1972 who will grant a general amnesty. And for the radical fringe the revolution in the States is impending. When it comes they will return vindicated and triumphant...
...dispute over the most effective use of the draft as an organizing tool is nationwide. In Boston, the broader approach is embodied in the Boston Draft Resistance Group (BDRG). The Resistance wants persons to dissociate themselves from the Selective Service; BDRG just wants them to avoid...
...central question is how much indignity a person a person is willing to undergo to avoid Canada, the army, or jail. "I knew a person who after months and months succeeded in getting a 1-Y deferment for homosexuality but in the process just about ruined his life," says Hunt. An individual can move in with a welfare mother to get a III-A dependency deferment...