Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge draft board has a total registration of 21,908. It receives a call for approximately ten men each month. Miss Lawler said it has also seen a large increase in applications for I-O (conscientious objector) and 4-F (physically or mentally unfit) classifications over the time of the Korean conflict...
...They are trying to ascertain some sort of subversive activity," Pailet explained, "but if some man tells another what it is possible to think, can you call this subversive...
Four "Reflections" have appeared to date. Like his books, they deal with what book reviewers call "the human condition" and therefore are not required to be topical. While most columnists are content to get a few facts straight, Hoffer likes to sum up whole civilizations with epigrammatic flourish. In this week's column, he chides U.S. intellectuals. They are "likely to consider any achievement not fathered by words as illegitimate," he writes. "Hence their disdain of things which have come to pass by chance. To the intellectual, America's unforgivable sin is that it has revolutions without revolutionaries...
...journalism schools have expanded, they have grown uneasy with even the name journalism. Many now call themselves schools of "communications" and try to deal with the broad spectrum of human dialogue. Stanford's Department of Communication, for example, has added courses called "Government and the Mass Media" and "Ethics in the Mass Media" to stimulate students' thinking about their work in the wider context of society. At the same time, Stanford encourages nonjournalism students to take these courses, thus breaking down even more the distinction between journalism students and those of other disciplines...
...unfair to someone. Johnson is said to be leaning toward a plan under which the monthly mix would be determined by the proportion of men of each age in the eligible pool; thus if half the men in the pool are 21, half of each month's call-up would be 21-year-olds...