Word: localism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...activist is anxious to be about his business and can't, for fear of being packed up in the increasingly frequent demonstrations at McGill University. "I came here to get out of that middle-class bag," remarked one, "and look where they've got me now." But Logos, the local underground paper, harbors a number of the hippier American exiles; it is presently staffed by the usual long-haired contingent and a select few who look like advertisements for Brooks Brothers...
Prospects for the less skilled, including college graduates, are more limited. A few Americans teach in the local schools, but since Montreal is largely French-speaking, two languages are generally prerequisite. The language barrier also eliminates any job here that might involve substantial contact with the public...
...number of draft resisters increases, the situation is likely to become worse. Sympathizers in Montreal feel that pressure will almost certainly be brought on American interests here to be as tough as possible on exiles. While the local citizenry is now largely indifferent to the presence of the expatriates there are signs that they may become increasingly sensitive to the influx of what at least one radio commentator has called "outlaws...
More important, as President Pusey noted in his Annual Report, new programs in the Kennedy School of Government, the Education, Divinity, Law, Public Health, and Medical Schools will mean closer cooperation between Harvard and federal and local governments...
Outside the university, protest was also turning to the draft. The largest and most expensive anti-war effort of 1967, Vietnam Summer, began with a hard-won cynicism about the worth of marches and demonstrations. The local chapters were to concentrate on door-to-door canvassing. But without expert organizers this effort was hopeless, and across the nation the most effective Vietnam Summer chapters developed anti-draft techniques...