Word: direct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...signature campaign will get widespread support even in the working class districts. The wording of the statement is so tepid that several canvassers in Ward 3 were reporting that one-half of the people who signed were actually "all for the war." The petition stops short of any direct criticism of the Johnson Administration, settling for "We, your constituents, are worried about our nation's involvement in Vietnam...
...orientation of the CNC toward electoral politics contrasts sharply with the stated aims of a second Cambridge peace organization, the Boston Draft Resistance Group. The people of the Draft Resistance Group are so filled with revulsion at the war that they have settled on a more immediate, direct, and personal "No!" They have all publicly announced their determination never to enter the military while the U.S. is fighting in Vietnam. In the Boston area, more than 400 have already taken the pledge...
...share of what the Nation long ago called "higher hokum." But it is also a legitimate and essential trade, necessitated by the complexity of modern life and the workings of an open society. It is growing today, says Harvard Government Professor Seymour Martin Lipset, because "there is ever more direct communication between power and people...
Planning for the next summer's sessions begins in September, when Crooks meets with all the Harvard department chairmen and outlines the school's basic needs. Course offerings and faculty are up to each department, and Crooks himself exerts little direct pressure. "The departments know what fields they ought to cover, and they don't want much help," he points out. The number of courses has increased from 151 to 191 in the last five years. Most of the growth has come in languages and in offerings from architectural science, Celtic, history of science, and the Carpenter Center, which last...
...have no "party line"; each participant is free to respond as he wishes to queries on whether the U.S. should withdraw immediately, or whether the President should be opposed in 1968 even if running against a hawkish Republican. On the other hand, radical leaders who will be helping to direct Vietnam Summer are said to believe that its main function is to plant the seeds for broad-based radical politics--something never before accomplished on a long-range basis in the United States...