Word: martialled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HAMP. Based on a novel by J. L. Hodson, John Wilson's play is a critical examination of a court-martial and its decision in favor of discipline rather than compassion. Robert Salvio is Private Hamp, a World War I infantryman condemned to death after his fears and instincts caused him to flee the bloodshed of the front...
...seemed at first a pedestrian case ambling toward a predictable conclusion. An obscure physician from Brooklyn, drafted into the Army and clearly a military misfit, was haled before a general court-martial, charged with preaching antiwar dogma to enlisted men and refusing to teach them dermatology as he had been ordered. But last week the case of Captain Howard Levy took on unexpected significance both as a precedent in military law and as a chapter in the worldwide debate over the Vietnamese war. For the first time in a U.S. military court, the war-crimes doctrine of Nürnberg...
HAMP. Based on a novel by J. L. Hodson, John Wilson's play is a critical examination of a court-martial and its decision in favor of discipline rather than compassion. Robert Salvio is Private Hamp, a World War I infantryman condemned to death after his fear and instincts caused him to flee the bloodshed of the front...
...PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). The 5½-day court-martial of ten Bounty mutineers in 1792 is the subject of "Acquit or Hang." an original play by Stanley Miller...
Said Essayist Paul Goodman, a self-styled anarchist, in the current New York Review of Books: "Some kind of martial law and thousands of arrests for sedition are quite thinkable...