Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Freud and Bullitt. At the same time, this too-deep devotion to his father caused young Tommy Wilson to suppress the aggressive instincts that a growing boy normally directs against his male parent. The authors state flatly that Wilson "never had a fist fight in his life" and did not participate in sports or games of any kind, although they contradict themselves later. Bullitt and Freud insist that Wilson grew up virtually shorn of the traits of manliness; his use of gentle persuasion rather than forcefulness was to them a sure sign that feminine characteristics had taken the upper hand...
...impossible." Why? "Because he was the son of God." Faced with aggressive (that is, masculine) resistance to his peace program, he practiced the feminine strategy of capitulation. Why? "His unconscious desire to be Christ invented the comforting theory that he could obtain all that he wished without a fight, that he could hand all his weapons to his enemies and convert them by that noble gesture into saints." Describing Wilson's 1919 cross-country campaign to plead his case for a League of Nations, the authors observe: "One may be sure that in his unconscious, when he boarded...
...honesty expect him to act in any other than a hostile manner toward the Left? We must take into consideration that in a recent poll, the students of Harvard indicated that they wished to be exempted--meaning simply that they did not want to go and fight (or go to jail). And we do not believe they should--nor that anyone should be faced with these alternatives...
...cent of the white job-holders give up their jobs so Negroes won't have twice the unemployment rate (the Negro unemployed, let alone the white worker, would scarcely thank us for winning such "reforms" of the system!). We demand more jobs for everyone NOW! Being free not to fight in an unjust war is a right that belongs to everyone, just as having a job is. So we demand an end to the draft and short of that, exemptions from combat for those who object to a particular war such as this...
...year of the draft review, a real fight against the draft is necessary and possible: Not by mouthing McNamara's "Abolish 2-S," but by fighting for an end to the draft itself and reforms consistent with that end. While these reforms are (like all reforms) obfuscations of the ultimate goal, mobilizing support for them can broaden the base of our movement, and bring nearer the time when it will be politically impossible for a Johnson to wage a Vietnam...