Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy stated the need for a continuing dialogue between the "theorists and the activists" which would "help our party produce imaginative yet practical programs...
...weighed my responsibility to help preserve my community in war-time; I considered in what manner I might effectively rationalize killing; I questioned whether I could subordinate myself to the authority of the state in making moral decisions; I considered the financial and emotional consequences of my decision for those personally close to me and for myself; I consulted the teachings of Christ and Augustine and the writings of Franz Jaegerstadter, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Franziskus Stratmann, O.P. [Dominicans]. I weighed all these considerations--shot off my mouth about each of them several times to friends and advisors and often...
...than a I-O because I-AOs count toward fulfilling local boards' quotas. Draft boards often bargain with CO's seeking I-O status and try to get them to settle for I-AO. A stock question which draft boards pose is "Would Christ help civilians and refuse to help soldiers?" The implication is that the I-A-O medic is an independent agent of mercy on the battle-field...
Once they skirt the stark alternatives of the Supreme Being question, Harvard CO's take advantage of Seeger's invitation to individualism, often enlisting the help of philosophers and writers to help them express their objections to war. "It's really amazing the people they bring in to support their objection," a draft advisor in the Square marvelled. "I've just recently seen a couple of Lao-tzu types," he added...
...tries to get through Form 150 without some help unless he is well acquainted with the intricacies of Selective Service law. The "Handbook for Conscientious Objectors," compiled by the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO) in Philadelphia is the bible for CO's. They praise it unreservedly for its legalistic, unpropagandistic, up-to-date presentation of the facts about procedures, problems, and consequences of seeking CO status...