Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while attending N.Y.U., speaks bitterly of "Kids with nothing to do-they don't even go to classes, but they take over a building and sit in it drinking wine." Most of the working-class students share the radicals' opposition to the Viet Nam war and the draft. Many even grant that campus rebels have done some good by awakening society to evils that must be corrected. Even so, their predominant feeling to ward the radicals is simple dissociation. "I haven't taken part in any demonstrations," says Sally De Haven, 22, a scholarship student...
...sodden moments when he loses his way and tries to inject some social meaning into the film. Meyer apparently got the idea during the last half of the shooting that Vixen should touch on some Major Issues of the Day, like racial tension, the War, the draft, revolution, etc. He's not too good at dealing with these ideas, and he ended up dumping all his social messages on one character: a black motorcyclist, who left America because of the draft and who nearly hijacks Mr. Vixen's plane to Cuba to promote racial justice. Meyer could have done himself...
...husband's piloting business takes him away from the cabin and leaves Vixen alone. Clever Vixen finds other diversions, and the film follows her as she bounds in and out of beds and meadows with a strange assortment of friends: a Mountie, several tourists, her brother, her brother's draft-dodging friend, a fisherman and his wife (separately), and most of the other residents of British Columbia excepting the bears...
...dangerous age, when hippies, "heads" and free-love advocates seem to be running our campuses and even our country, such a suggestion is inflammatory and unpatriotic. Burning draft cards and U.S. flags is bad enough; now these subversives want to burn bras and briefs too. Is there no limit past which the enemies of law and order will not go? As a proud American and president of a company that for four generations has dedicated itself to supporting the U.S.'s posture in the world, I say enough is enough. America needs to regroup and to rebuild...
Long-range planning is also affected by the draft: 166 men or 15 per cent of the Class of 1968 indicated that they were not certain about their long-range career plans, as compared with 92 or 8 per cent of the Class of 1967. The data in this area are not yet available for the Class...