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When a student becomes personally involved with the war, he experiences a type of frustration which is unusual for the affluent. To them the war is wrong and it seems like nothing can be done about it. The distinct possibility of being sent to Vietnam to die brings home the feeling of powerlessness and awareness of the student's inability to control his own fate...
...enormously increased activism on campus is being brought about by this new group of middle-of-the-road radicals attempting to influence seriously American society. These radicals are concentrating on local college issues, instead of broader national questions, for two reasons. First, there are distinct similarities between the student-administration relationship and the student's connection to the U.S. government concerning the Vietnam...
While SDS was trying to define a distinct home for itself on the far Left, the civil rights movement was capturing the attention of the country. For the next four years, until the end of 1964, civil rights marches and non-violent protests were the training and recruiting grounds for the nation's activists...
...shouted amidst a volley of questions, "Don't badger him," the mood of the protesters literally shifted instantaneously to one of warmth and sympathy. Someone offered Leavitt a Harvard lunch bag, which he would accept only after it had been pushed at him several times. That ended a very distinct phase in the demonstration--the vent your Vietnam venom on Leavitt stage. Leavitt had personally proved to be a lousy symbol of the war machine...
James Lardner's direction is unobtrusive but effective. Aside from some really sorry smaller parts (and the fact that no one in the cast quite knows his lines yet), Lardner has made each character a distinct one--a must if half the humor is not to be lost. The set, conceived by Howard Cutler and built by Mark Page, is attractive and simple, perfectly suited to the limitations of a dining hall theatre...