Word: objectors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After graduation from Beverly Hills High, Dreyfuss put in a year at San Fernando Valley State College. Because he was a conscientious objector, he spent the next two years in alternative service, as a clerk at a Los Angeles hospital. Carefully mapping out his life, the Cassius side of Dreyfuss planned on ten years of acting apprenticeship. But before he could get started, he says, in a voice that wavers somewhere between woe and wonder, "the movies happened-boom! boom! boom!" American Graffiti led to The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, which led to Jaws-which led to the beginning...
...Cologne auto-plant worker, Wallraff was drafted into the army in 1963, denied release as a conscientious objector, declared to possess an "abnormal personality" and then discharged. Wallraff recounted that Catch-22 experience for a small leftist magazine, and the wide public notice he received persuaded him to seek new roles for his "abnormal personality." He spent three years working at various blue-collar jobs for a 1966 expose of the squalor and drudgery that can afflict industrial workers in affluent West Germany. He posed as a drunkard and later a mental patient to uncover prejudice and hypocrisy among government...
...each blood cell,/ as if my hand were at its throat," he confessed in Skunk Hour, a famous testament to his dark inner life. It was an outwardly tempestuous life as well. He was a Roman Catholic convert in his 20s-he later renounced the church -and a conscientious objector who served five months in prison for draft resistance during World War II. In his later years, he suffered from manic-depression and was often in mental institutions. He had three wives, all writers: Novelist Jean Stafford, Critic Elizabeth Hardwick and English Novelist Lady Caroline Blackwood. The Byronic drama...
...high school friends say Berkowitz, once a military hawk who turned pacifist while in Korea, may even have sought release as a conscientious objector (the Army does not publicly discuss such matters). More portentously, Berkowitz's letters began to ramble incoherently, use odd imagery-and he signed at least one letter "Master of Reality." He apparently abandoned some of his religious fervor at this time, began swearing, which was out of character for that period of his life, and became ever more withdrawn and disagreeable...
...sociology major at Bates, Worthy became an admirer of Norman Thomas, a socialist leader and perennial presidential candidate, joined the American Civil Liberties Union, edited the school newspaper, and refused to join the military during World War II, claiming conscientious objector status on the basis of his "absolute pacificism...