Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee member stressed that "we are not advising people to resist the draft. But if a physicist comes to us and has already decided to leave the country permanently, we want to help him find a place where he could at least continue his work...
...would wish it to be, and mere human decency cannot have been its message. The economic metaphor encompassing the play is too grand and too well constructed to be peripheral. The Little Foxes depicts the passing of one system into another--of feudalism into capitalism--and the figures who resist the design of economic history are, to some extent, revolutionaries. Of course the line between liberalism and radicalism seemed less pronounced in 1939 than today, a fact which catalyzed this process of identification. But the play should remain, on one level, a parable of American social history; if this level...
...YORK, Feb. 25--In a poll of Columbia College seniors taken last week, 40 per cent of the students who answered the questionnaire said that they would resist the draft. Over half of the 570 students who comprise the senior class completed the written poll...
Thirty-five per cent of the students polled, including most of those who had indicated they would resist the draft, said they would leave the country rather than face induction. Afghanistan, Mexico, Israel, and Canada were listed as possible exile homes...
...cent of the senior class will either leave the country or go to jail before serving in Vietnam. Another poll, released yesterday, indicates that the percentage among graduate students is twice as high. These polls, more substantively, show that at the very least 500 Harvard students are ready to resist the draft...