Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American system, as the petition points out, should be flexible enough to accommodate these dictates of conscience within the framework of the law. Individuals should not have to oppose all war -- on the grounds of conscientious objection -- to be excused from fighting. If their objection to a particular conflict is strong enough, they should be allowed to perform some task off the battle-field, that does not demand participation in the immediate conflict...
Price discussed and rejected the idea of extending conscientious objection to individual wars. "If you believe that some wars are necessary and justified -- wars to stop aggression, for example -- but that this particular war is a mistake of such an order that you cannot in good conscience fight in it, your decision is not a question of principle but of interpretation...
...moment met at a still point in a changing world. Ten years earlier, it could not have been done at all. Ten years later, it had become routine. But at this particular time, all the world could feel that its hopes, for a few excruciating and exhilarating hours, lay in the hands of one young man. And when Charles Lindbergh landed the Spirit of St. Louis on Paris' Le Bourget field, people everywhere-groundlings with a sudden vision of a boundless future-experienced a leap of the heart...
...secondly, to express great fears about the future stability of this country's politics, that, indeed, the continued existence of traditional constitutional democracy as we know it is threatened by the inability of the present party structure to respond meaningfully to the demands of certain excluded groups, in particular the urban Negro. And the election of any Republican (for any Republican will staff his administration primarily with other Republicans) will be a blow to the prospects of solving America's domestic problems. If that is the price that must be paid to extricate this country from Vietnam, the costs should...
...idea that Cliffies who intend to study at Hilles could come before 7:30 and be assured of getting seats. They also hoped that exclusion during this time discourage some men from coming and thus solve the overcrowding without an across-the-board banning of all groups or one particular group of men -- a measure which Mrs. Bunting considered to be against University library policy...