Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Certainly the Vietnamese people, both North and South, are extremely friendly to the Japanese on principle--which is nice psychologically for the Japanese--but things remain only on a simple level. We have no strong economic and cultural ties as the French retain in that area. Nor were we participants of the Geneva Convention that constructed the peace set-up in 1954 for Southeastern Asia. We have a relationship with Communist China, but it is not so close as to permit us to exert any influence upon them. We have a good relationship with the Soviet Union...
...later peacetime pools which include only 19-year-olds. Non-students over 19 but under 26 will not face the lottery, though this is the age-group most affected by the present system. However, most of the older, draftable men have been drafted. Doctors, the one group to retain student deferments, would enter a separate lottery after graduating from medical school...
...society is the tepid wasteland between Old Society and pop culture. Buy an apartment with a spectacular East River view of the National Biscuit Company. Furnish it with Louis XV furniture and a Monet, any Monet--and you're in. Except you are not. In their frantic battle to retain Youth and Style, the beautiful people have discovered pop culture and all its childish play things...
Waldo Pierce and his less exciting colleagues who only submit news of their own promotions will probably continue to hold a prominent place in the Bulletin, however, for Bethell is a very conservative reformer. His changes are mostly matters of presentation; much of the magazine's manner and content retain the tone of cultivated nostalgia that one expects to find there. The latest issue carries a full page picture of the last day of all-male study in Lamont, fringed with a mournful black border and captioned "Sic Transit Gloria Viri." Bethell like his predecessors pounds out for every issue...
...rejected the Holmes test. Instead, it followed the Supreme Court's recent tendency to "balance" the interests served by a statute v. free speech. Draft cards are vital to running the draft, said the Appellate Court. They backstop lost records and help control evaders. The need to retain them takes precedence over any alleged right to burn them. Holmesians might be troubled, but the decision hardly suppressed the right to dissent. David Miller and "those who agree with him," said the court, "remain free, as indeed they should be, to criticize national policy as they desire by the written...