Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...system is unfair, inequitable, and coercive, but justifies sticking with it because he lacks a better one that works. Although he originally opposed a random-selection draft system, he new favors it and views with dismay those Congressmen "too set in their old ways to accept a new idea on its merits." He is disappointed that the Marshall Commission's reform package was "broken up by Congress and left a grotesque thing that doesn't make sense...
...made the Times' front page and notified those concerned that the anti-war movement was changing directions. Ask any serious radical today, and he'll tell you that the draft should be the main focus of any serious anti-war activity. Students for a Democratic Society gave up the idea of mass marches after they started them in 1965, but in the two years since they have found no popular alternative. For non-student radicals, organizing over the price of potatoes in ghetto communities was satisfying, but it did not provide the same vivid insight into the "crumbling society...
...communicate this idea, and the people believe us. This is not heresy. It makes sense. They can talk about it," says Grizzard. The idea is that people in the neighborhood should watch out for each other and make each other more secure about the draft...
...idea that Harvard undergraduates ought to be exerting substantial influence on most major University decisions is respectable as well as appealing. "We are entering an uneasy period in Student-Faculty relations," former Dean of the College John U. Monro said last year; "there is no question but that we should have a greater undergraduate voice in running the College." But the mechanism for mobilizing that voice remains a mystery...
...quite encouraged by the number of phone calls that I received about the League," he said, "but I guess too many people were merely curious. I'm very disappointed with Radcliffe's response to this idea...