Word: jr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Through flashbacks to the catastrophic Allied fire-bombing of Dresden in World War II, this agonizing, outrageous, funny and profoundly rueful fable tries to say something about human cruelty and self-protective indifference...
...SHIRK JR...
...refusing to authorize a court-martial or official letters of admonition for the principal officers of U.S.S. Pueblo, Navy Secretary John Chafee indicated that they could live happily ever after in the service. But Lieutenant Edward R. Murphy Jr., the spy ship's executive officer, figured that his future had fizzled when the Navy refused his request to be assigned to the service's postgraduate school in Monterey, Calif. Last week he resigned his commission...
...extent that publicity hurts their families. When the press names student leaders, for example, some fathers receive hate mail, lose business orders or feel subtle disapproval by employers. Some fathers are also public officials, an extra burden. The presence of the son of Air Force Secretary Robert C. Seamans Jr., at the recent Harvard sit-in, for instance, was widely noted in press accounts. Like other prominent men in this situation, Seamans refuses to discuss the matter. Equally upset are the parents of some first-generation college students, including poor Negroes, who are baffled when their children seem to reject...
...same, Mike Kazin, a top student, is also an angry young man who, among other things, affixed a list of demands to Harvard President Nathan Pusey's front door. Such hard-line methods have increasingly disturbed even the most admiring parents. Says Edmund W. Pugh Jr., a Weyerhaeuser Co. executive whose son was suspended from Stanford after a sit-in: "We have a great feeling of compassion toward David as his idealism clashes with organized society. But I don't approve of their tactics. There is a proper way to express dissent: through the spoken and written word...