Word: objectionable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quietly pleased by his classroom support, Becker is weighing the unusual offer against bids for his services from other schools around the country. Although impressed by such overwhelming student support for a good teacher, Berkeley officials are reluctant to interfere with the faculty's exclusive right to select members...
A Pudding show, by definition, allows for and even capitalizes on its numerous shortcomings. Only when the proceedings stop is it in trouble. For that reason, while saluting the urge which produced them, I have to register objection to three attempts to make legitimate this joyfully bastard show: the self...
The first objection -- the threat of rampant militarism -- seems highly illusory. The doctrine of military subservience to civilian institutions has been firmly and irrevocably established in this their susceptibility to the charisma of Commanders-in-Chief, but no one, from William Henry Harrison to Dwight David Eisenhower, ever came to...
Within this compulsory system, however, some provision should be made for conscientous objection to a particular war, as is done in England. The exact form of such exemptions deserves careful consideration, but should be enacted along with the lottery.
What remains obscured by most arguments for the volunteer army is that it will not, for the most part, include the wealthy or well-educated. That is the critical objection. It means that class distinction, even without 2-S, would endure -- simply in a less obvious form. Do the rich...