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...Friday] resignation was in conformitywith our regulations," said Paul Gitlin, vicechair of the state Board of Registration inMedicine. "What we got...was [a resignation] thatwas permanent, unconditional, and we accepted...
...Virtually every young man faced the war dilemma," says Berkeley's Gitlin, who wrote a superb history, The Sixties. "It was not self-evident what was the right thing to do. For some it was to leave the country; for others, to be a conscientious objector, or seek an exemption by having children or working in some protected occupation, or by staying in school." For some, of course, the right thing to do was to go to Vietnam and serve...
Many theorists describe the hegemonic influence of modern mass media. Sociologist and cultural critic Todd Gitlin argues that the structure and content of television programs propagate materialist values and political complacency. Historian Stuart Ewen contends that American industry spreads a consumerist ideology through advertising to maintain the authority of the capitalist mode of production...
...take another draft to ignite America's college students against the war, and that, Gitlin says, is a pretty unlikely possibility right...
...think that lesson was learned from Nixon, and other presidents," Gitlin says. "You don't fight a war with a democratic army...