Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recruiting blurb for the Army, the picture is top-notch. The "I" of the title turns out to be Uncle Sam, of all people. All the able-bodied men of draft age and a little bit over who appear in the film sooner or later wind up in the services, feeling extremely noble about it all. Really fills you with spirit...
...entertainment, it is not impressive. Perhaps pictures about pre-war situations are intrinsically harder to make well than pictures about post-war situations, but anyway this one never quite comes off. Its chief effect is to remind everyone that war and the draft are important threats these days...
Among the expressions of Christmastide cheer received by many men between the ages of eighteen-and-one-half and twenty-six were induction notices from local draft boards across the nation. The event was marked with the haphazardness typical of the present draft setup...
...example, one of the recipients--an Eliot House senior--had been led to assume that he would be inducted last summer when his deferment expired. However, at that time his long Island draft board indicated that all his preparations for winding up his civilian affairs were unnecessary and that he could attend college this year if he wished. Shortly after he registered, he received a new note from his draft board instructing him to be ready for induction by December; the traditional letter of greetings arrived on Christmas...
...confusion cannot be blamed on the draft board; located in an area where men of draftable age are mostly preparatory or college students, and faced with a quota to fill, it probably had little choice. As long as national draft policy consists of conflicting decisions made by several thousand little draft boards as they try to fill arbitrary and rapidly changing demands from above, the question of students status will remain in the same category as the Martian canals...