Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possible for me, though medically deferred, to try to force prosecution individually, as did Dr. Spock and Rev. Coffin, or to leave the country. Unless and until I decide to take either of these courses, I feel I should not in the slightest encourage a student to face them. The decision to accept the alternatives to induction is a private and lonely one. The individual may have to spend five years of his life in prison or leave the country permanently. He may find little comfort in the thought that a large number of Harvard's Faculty believe he made...
...January, Harvard refused to allow WGBH-TV to televise a Lowell Lecture Hall teach-in on the war in Vietnam arranged after Dr. Benjamin Spock, the Rev. William Sloan Coffin, Michael Ferber, a second-year graduate student, and two other men were indicted for conspiracy to help others evade the draft...
...good part of the evening is pure vaudevillian slapstick-coffin-lid play, unscheduled entrances, involuntary exits, stashing the money where the corpse was and vice versa. The macabre jocularity involves such bits of business as tossing the dead mother's dentures across the room as casually as a pack of cigarettes. All of this demands the split-second timing of a Feydeau farce, and unfortunately Director Derek Gold-by is no Mike Nichols...
...seem to derive considerable visual satisfaction from the myriad reflections and subtler shadows cast by their repetitive surfaces. If they care to disobey the rules, moreover, and meditate on the symbolism of Judd's boxes, the possibilities are endless. What is a box, they say, if not a coffin, a house, a treasure chest? As for that series of boxes climbing up the wall, what is it but a machine-produced, 20th century revision of a medieval illuminator's stairway to paradise...
Starting on a serious note with what he admitted to be his major concern today--the draft--Pike reiterated his advice to students to oppose the draft if their consciences so dictated.. He asked to be included in the conspiracy indictment with Dr. Benjamin Spock and William Sloane Coffin...