Word: objections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reed left Harvard in February, after burning his draft card, and went to Germany, "unwilling to face up to the confrontation between the government and my principles," he said. There he was convinced that it was his duty to "return and provide an example to all those who object to the aggressive war in Vietnam...
...biography, written in 1962 by French Academician Jean Guehenno and now translated into English for the first time, succeeds expertly in establishing Rousseau's tortured assertion of individualism as well as his complicated genius. Rousseau raised his own character to the status of dogma and almost to an object of veneration. "He believed he was unique," writes Guehenno, "and for this reason answerable only to his own jurisdiction...
...remember quite well what I said in Sanders Theatre that night. I would say it is still true. Our daily living has become too complex. Professionally trained people are moving away from involvement in government. Bound up in intense specialties, they lose sight of the larger object of what is good for our democracy. What we need, perhaps, is mass training in community needs...
Government aid to research is not bad in itself, but the aid has been channelled through "operational" agencies such as the C.I.A. that fit the research to their own narrow aims. The researchers also object to having their names attached to organizations carrying out clandestine and sometimes violent operations. The Foundation for the Social Sciences would protect academic independence--and academic reputations--by guaranteeing noninterference by other government agencies...
...exit under pressure brought on a well-deserved counter-revolt. All but two of the 55-member I.S. 201 faculty-including its 26 Negroes-refused to teach under anyone except Lisser. Assistant Principal Beryl Banfield, a Negro named to replace him, indignantly declined, because, she said, "I object to being chosen on the basis of color, not competence...