Word: draft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THEREIN lies the tragedy of the situation. For the instant pre-meds have, on the average, more impressive academic records. Some medical schools will try to weed out "draft-dodgers," but, as usual, grades will prevail. Which can only mean that many of the pre-meds who were planning to be doctors, not researchists, will find themselves in February with a fistful of rejections--or clutching tightly the letter of acceptance from one of their "insurance" schools, and being damn grateful they have...
...come early and stay late, refusing to bow to the stale pedagogic commands that emanate from 110 Livingston Street, the Board of Education's central office in Brooklyn. Many have attended law school, and regular teachers complain bitterly that they are in Ocean Hill only to escape the draft...
...effrontery of Maggie Flynn is to commercially exploit, for purposes of amusement, the oppression of Negroes, draft evasion and the Viet Nam war in terms of a factitiously conceived parallel with the draft riots of 1863. So slipshod is the play that at one point the draft dodgers, who have been presented as militantly antiwar, go racially berserk and are about to burn, maim or kill a dozen Negro orphans. Behind the injected element of fashionable social consciousness lies a cornball ro mance about the orphans' surrogate mother (Shirley Jones) and her erratic spouse (Jack Cassidy), who went...
Later O'Connor, speaking with a soft Southern accent, requested students to use the peace sign for opposition to the war in general, but to display a clenched fist when referring to the draft, because "it is the sign of Resistance." "I love you all," he said to the crowd, as tears ran down his face...
Gerry Stein, a member of the Sanctuary Community, said that the New England Draft Resistance Group (NEDRG) put O'Connor in touch with the M.I.T. Resistance. Stein explained that the M.I.T. Resistance had been planning a sanctuary for over three weeks. However, the NEDRG, fearing interference from the F.B.I., did not release the name of the AWOL until a few minutes before the sanctuary began...