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...after Project Washington, Tocsin seemed to have foundered. Having discovered that crucial connections exist between an unimaginative disarmament policy and a generally unimaginative foreign policy, Tocsin lost its early purposefulness. At a discussion this winter between Harvard leaders of the peace and civil rights movements, Goldmark's successor, Todd Gitlin '63, wistfully expressed admiration for the concrete goals of the integration movement. Tocsin has neither thrown in its lot with the pacifist left nor succeeded in revamping Goldmark's educational policy to include the complexities it has discovered. A recent attempt at such a reinvigorated teaching program--called "Alperovitzing'--awakened...
Quincy: David Josiah Ballard, Benjamin A. Batson, Jr., Joseph E. Clements, Richard D. Copaken, Leonard Lloyd Eliman, Stephen R. Fenster, Todd A. Gitlin, Michael E. Goldberg, Leon I. Jacobson, David E. Levy, Roy M. MacLeod, II, Joseph P. Newhouse, David H. Sohmalz, Charles A. Stevenson, Brian A. Thompson, Richard E. Wilson...
Weaver's forceful manner, and the contrast it offered to the apparent disillusionment of Goldmark and Gitlin, seemed to capture the audience's imagination and it spent most of the two hours discussion drawing Weaver and Epps out on their views. The questions and comments were almost all aimed at distinguishing the rights movement's pursuit of legal and political equality for the Negro from the more far-reaching demands of such men as author James Baldwin. Weaver and several activists in the audience agreed with those who said that Baldwin's rejection of the United States's whole style...
...enough in common to permit cooperative action; but this subject was all but ignored after the formal speeches. The general discussion of the speeches concentrated almost exclusively on the rights movement, in part because of the feelings expressed by the two representatives of Tocsin, Peter Goldmark '62 and Todd Gitlin '63, both past presidents...
...their remarks, Goldmark and Gitlin were extremely pessimistic about the peace movement, and Goldmark compared it with the rights movement by contrasting "tilting at wind-mills" with the "gritty, substantial" activity of the integrationists. Gitlin, while insisting that there was a "moral community" between the two movements, conceded that the civil rights workers "know what they want" and can get it by "direct confrontation with men and institutions," while the peace movement is confused in its purposes and unable to "make things happen...