Word: pacifistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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David A. Reed '68, a pacifist, was found guilty yesterday in Boston's U.S. District Court of two violations the Selective Service Laws -- failure to appear for a physical examination and failure to report for induction...
After publicly burning his card as a "symbolic protest" in Manhattan last fall, Catholic Pacifist David R. Miller, 23, became the first person to be convicted under the new law. By his own choice, Miller was tried without a jury, and he argued that the law denied his First Amendment rights of free speech and protest. U.S. District Judge Harold Tyler Jr. was not impressed; he gave Miller a three-year sentence, suspending it on condition that he carry a new card and obey all lawful draft board orders. Last week the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld Tyler...
...that may or may not be the Daily Worker. She gives this up to marry a rising young labor organizer, George Cook. At the same time, she nurtures incestuous feelings for her brother Tom, who is "like a painted Christ in a blue and pink oleo," a mystic, a pacifist and a lady-killer who bums around the countryside with a harpy seeking faith cures for her cancer. He gets to feel that he is something of a healer himself, and sees people who are not there. For a while, this unpleasant freak and sister Nellie attend something called...
What was not precisely routine was be absence of more serious violence. Last spring, members of the committee for Nonviolent Action (CNVA), he pacifist group that was sponsoring the Boston to Provincetown walk, were beaten severly in front of a South Boston courthouse. The angry mood that led to these attacks had not disappeared, last Saturday; it was merely frustrated by a Boston Police department, which, embarrassed by a conspicuous absence in front of be court, provided the march with heavy protection. In fact, wherever the march went, local police covered well. But it took only one slip to inform...
...call yourselves Americans" feeling: Almost universally, the marchers were seen as unpatriotic. "You're all yellow bastards," one man yelled at the group. The pacifists tried to argue that America had no right to impose its will upon Sough Vietnam. "If there were an election in South Vietnam," said one pacifist to a hostile spectator, "and if a majority of the people said they wanted the Communists and wanted to distribute land to everyone, would we have a right to say NO?" Without hesitation, the boy responded "Yes, we could," and then proceeded to explain why. Repeatedly, the argument came...