Word: richness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poor have no chance to exercise individual liberty, these critics claim, because the prospect of low wages in civilian jobs will force them to take advantage of the army's financially attractive offer. A volunteer army, in other words, would coerce the poor into becoming paid killers for the rich...
...critics contend, an army, composed of volunteers would be a poor man's army. But there is no reason why the army should reflect the basic inequities of American society any less than other jobs or institutions. Already the rich are freed from ditch-digging, construction work, hard labor of any sort. Are we to correct this inequity by conscripting people into the ditches? Highways, after all, are as much of a national necessity as wars...
...danger is not that too many poor people will join the army, but that anyone -- rich or poor -- will be compelled to act against his own will. Drafting men by lottery and therefore without bias is preferable to drafting them according to class distinctions. The student deferment should be abolished because it is inequitable -- it dramatically increases the coercion on particular sectors of the population by removing the rich and the smart from the manpower pool...
...racialist," protested Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere last week. "We are only getting rid of those people who are here illegally." The same menacing tone was in the voice of Kenya's President Jomo Kenyatta, who warned that "non-Kenyans, however rich, who ridicule the laws of the country, practice cat-and-mouse friendship and insult Africans will be ordered to pack up and go home." Who were these social undesirables about to be tossed out of paradise...
Harvard looms large to the insiders; it is mentioned in almost every category listed on McCall's questionnaire. The Harvard stereotype is a student destined to become successful, rich, and well-married. He edges out the Southwest Texas State student as most likely to become President of the United States...