Word: miller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Best rock 'n' roll single-Roger Miller's King of the Road (Smash), also voted the best single song, and male vocal performance in the country and western category...
...produces heroes, so the antiwar movement must make martyrs. Last week's leading candidates were Pacifist David J. Miller, 23, a graduate of Jesuit-run Le Moyne College in Syracuse, who claims that "the only thing I'm expert at is refusing to be drafted," and Brown University Dropout David Mitchell, also 23, who founded the Brooklyn-based End the Draft Committee and its monthly publication Downdraft, but maintains that he would fight to defend his country against attack. Both refuse to apply for classification as conscientious objectors-though neither has shown any reticence about offering his conscience...
...Witness? Miller, who first achieved prominence of sorts in October by publicly burning his draft card, last month became the first American to be convicted of transgressing a 1965 law making that act a felony. Last week he came up for sentencing in New York's Federal District Court, where Judge Harold Tyler Jr. dismissed his argument that igniting a draft card is a form of free speech, but announced dryly that he would not "create a myth of martyr-hood." After handing down a three-year sentence, the judge suspended it on condition that Miller obtain...
...likely. "I have no intention," said Miller, "of obeying any of the judge's directives, even if I have to go to jail." Imprisonment, as he sees it, "is one of the responsibilities of being a Christian witness." Miller's lawyers then filed a notice of appeal, which had the effect of staying the probation terms and keeping Miller at least temporarily out of convict's garb or G.I.'s fatigues...
...Advocate is publishing this anthology. Does the magazine want to show off the best pieces it has published? Does it want to demonstrate how four generations of Harvard undergraduates took to literary experimentation? Does it want to present curiosities, like Wallace Stevens' writing iambic tetrameter or Henry Miller's early prurient scatology...