Word: objectore
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College, got his master's degree from the University of Chicago at 21. He has been a welfare worker in St. Louis, an unpaid editor of Manhattan's social-conscious Catholic Worker, a conscientious objector during the Korean war, a researcher for the Fund for the Republic. Now a freelance writer, he lives in a $65-a-month Greenwich Village tenement with his wife Stephanie...
...Selective Service authorities in New York and Justice Department officials in Washington, Daniel Seeger presented a baffling problem. A New Yorker of draft age, Seeger claimed exemption as a conscientious objector, but he was an unusual sort of c.o. Although raised in a Roman Catholic family (two of his uncles became priests), he was a self-styled agnostic who refused to say he believed in a Supreme Being. The Selective Service Act makes it unmistakably clear that no one is to be exempted from the draft as a c.o. unless he holds to a "belief in a relation...
Farmer, a World War II conscientious objector, describes himself as a disciple of Gandhi. Says he: "It's going to be a long, hot summer. These spontaneous demonstrations are going to be a problem. Our job is to channelize them constructively. I feel very strongly for nonviolence." Yet for one reason or another, violence often accompanies CORE's demonstrations...
...text was by England's great World War I poet, Wilfred Owen, who was killed in France a week before the Armistice. The music was by Benjamin Britten, a passionate pacifist and conscientious objector during World War II. After the chorus in West Berlin's Deutsche Oper had chanted the final line of Britten's War Requiem, the stunned audience sat in utter silence. Then came volleys of applause. Britten's nonliturgical Mass is fast taking its place as one of the rare modern masterworks for the voice...
...years ago, has become a Canadian citizen, lives in Stratford, Ont., where he is a steady performer and occasional director of the Festival Theater. A strapping, 200-lb. man with curly red hair, he is a vegetarian and a pacifist; in World War II he filed as a conscientious objector. "For a pacifist,'' he says, assaying his present performance as a tribal general, "I thrust a mean spear.'' He does...