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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...REMEMBER clearly sinning with some friends last winter in the Freshman Union talking about the war. The conversation was a strange one for we were engaged in flights of fancy as to how one might end a war that still seemed inexorable. In other words, how one might most persuasively address a stone wall: "Suppose a bird flew up to you one day and said, 'If you cut off your toes. I guarantee that the war will end.' Would you do it?" The question seemed reminiscent of grade school and cootie-catchers, but it was easy to answer since...

Author: By David R. Ignatius, | Title: From the Shelf The Trial of Dr. Spock | 10/11/1969 | See Source »

...talking about the war. During a Iull in which we were all shovelling down our food, my devilish roommate, who had first postulated the talking bird, said very slowly that there might be way in which those of us sitting at that table could bring the war to an end. Gasps. We lit the essential cigarettes and listened to his proposal for the creation and organization of H-RSC: The Harvard-Radcliffe Suicide Club. It went something like this. Once a week, one of us, drawn by lot, would make his way to Washington, to some public place where...

Author: By David R. Ignatius, | Title: From the Shelf The Trial of Dr. Spock | 10/11/1969 | See Source »

JESSICA MITFORD has written a book about the trial of the Boston Five anti-war conspirators, who also existed in that other time when people did and thought strange things to end a war that was still on the upswing. The days of the Resestance and self-sacrifice rather than confrontation...

Author: By David R. Ignatius, | Title: From the Shelf The Trial of Dr. Spock | 10/11/1969 | See Source »

right to boycott classes, it added that "if a professor cancels his class, the time should be made up." Laslo Pasztur 73. president of YAF, said privately that he would attend classes. "I'm for an end to the war," he commented, "but with honor and victory...

Author: By Nina Bernstein, | Title: Harvard Political Groups State Views on Vietnam Moratorium | 10/11/1969 | See Source »

...November Action Committee (NAC), a loose coalition of radicals grown out of last year's New Left, will probably abide by the Moratorium, one spokesman said, "but organizationally will ignore it." "This is no way to end the war," he added. "You can get the whole Senate behind it and nothing will happen. You can even get Nixon reading a statement condemning this and all wars and it won't make any difference. This war is about real things going on, we need to positively support...

Author: By Nina Bernstein, | Title: Harvard Political Groups State Views on Vietnam Moratorium | 10/11/1969 | See Source »

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