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...speaking trips to college campuses last year. Those trips "got me scared," he explained. Sympathetic to the aspirations of rebellious Negroes, Viet Nam war protesters and students, he fully endorses their right to dissent; yet he points out that "the motive of civil disobedience, whatever its type, does not confer immunity for law violation. The dissident may be right in the eyes of history or morality or philosophy. But these are not controlling. Just as we expect the government to be bound by all laws, so each individual is bound by all of the laws under the Constitution. He cannot...
...invited him up to Capitol Hill. In a 90-minute meeting, he promised to discourage civil disobedience-except "as a last resort." In turn, the Congressmen promised to set up what Michigan's Democratic Senator Philip Hart called a "bipartisan, biracial" committee of 15 to 17 members to confer weekly with Abernathy and his lieutenants...
...cruelly rejectable from major playwrights. With eloquence and gallantry, Williams introduced to U.S. drama the previously inadmissible evidence of the emotional outcast and the sexual invert and made the stage vibrate to the heartbeats of the violated and the vulnerable. Himself a masterly creator of characters, Williams could not confer that gift on his disciples. An entire secondary echelon of playwrights-men like William Inge, Robert Anderson and Paddy Chayefsky-became Freudian scholastics. They invented the look-through character long before the appearance of the see-through dress. But to explain a character is to explain him away, and through...
...insularity in its dealings with the Morningside Heights community which surrounds it. A majority of the Faculty have voted that the immediate target of the protestors' anger, a gym under construction in Morningside Park, should not be built--at least until community leaders are given a chance to confer on an alternate site. The temporary halt in construction may well become permanent...
While continuing these diplomatic efforts, the U.S. was hinting none too subtly that the bombing restriction might not be continued indefinitely. Johnson, in Honolulu to confer with South Korean President Chung Hee Park about both Viet Nam and Seoul's security problems (see THE WORLD), stressed that it had been a long time since the bombing limitation began on March 31. "Our restraint," added Rusk, "was meant to inspire discussions about ending this war, not to provide an excuse for propaganda warfare while the battle raged...