Word: griswold
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...current rhetoric-which sometimes seems to consecrate civil disobedience as the noblest response in the pantheon of virtues-has obscured the nature and consequence of this activity." The speaker at Tulane University Law School was Erwin Griswold, 63, former dean of the Harvard Law School and now U.S. Solicitor General; and he wanted to get one major thought across. "One who contemplates civil disobedience," he said, "should not be surprised and must not be bitter if a criminal conviction ensues. It is part of the Gandhian tradition that the sincerity of the individual's conscience presupposes that...
...punishment must come, Griswold said, simply because the law has been broken. "It is the essence of law that it binds all alike, irrespective of personal motive," he added. This is true whether the protester decides "to halt a troop train to protest the Viet Nam war" or "fire shots into a civil rights leader's home to protest integration...
...next day a second voice joined in and spread the message. Speaking at the Syracuse University College of Law, Earl Morris, 59, president of the American Bar Association, echoed Griswold as he said: "Many today seem to be demanding for themselves the unlimited right to disobey law." But "an essential concomitant of civil disobedience is the actor's willingness to accept the punishment that follows." The philosophical "concept has been distorted in these times to justify violence and anarchy. What is reprehensible in these acts is not the end to be achieved, but the methods of achieving...
...killed at a compound near Ban Me Thuot in the Central Highlands, where the CMA ran a school and a leprosarium. According to survivors' accounts, the attack began before dawn when North Vietnamese sappers blew up a home in the center of the compound. The two occupants, Leon Griswold, 66, a retired insurance salesman from White Plains, N.Y., who had turned missionary, and his daughter Carolyn, 41, a youth worker, were fatally injured...
Senior guard Jeff Grate had 14 points, six rebounds and several defensive steals. This was the last game for him, captain Bobby Beller and Jim Griswold...