Word: right
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...classification because he is "not formally religious," and his objection to being drafted was solely related to the Viet Nam war. Drawing from sources as varied as Learned Hand and Alfred North Whitehead, Judge Wyzanski began his legal analysis with the broad contention that the First Amendment right to free exercise of religion means "that no statute can require combat service of a conscientious objector whose principles are either religious or akin thereto...
Sincere and Insincere. But he made a point of adding that the right is not absolute. "The most sincere religious believer may be validly punished even if in strict pursuance of his creed or principles, he fanatically assassinates an opponent or practices polygamy." In other words, an individual's religious freedom must be balanced against the competing interest of the state. In the Sisson case, the judge found the balance tipped by "the magnitude of Sisson's interest in not killing in the Viet Nam conflict as against the want of magnitude in the country's present...
...ever seen. They have no sense of history; that's why we have to relive the age of the Brownshirts, when students marched into German universities and took them over." Why are campus disorders spreading? "When they rip up one campus and all that happens is that their right to use the ice-cream-bar machine is revoked for one hour, what do you expect?" Should marijuana be legalized? "By all means. Also murder, rape and arson-then we could do away with all crime...
...simplish "solution" to the Viet Nam problem ("I say shoot back"). The S.D.S., he says, should be renamed S.W.I.N.E. for "students wildly indignant with nearly everything." He handles hostile audiences firmly: when one activist leaped up at a Kentucky campus appearance and yelled an obscenity, Capp said, "All right, you've told us your name. Now what is your question...
...soft-spoken way with a hand-picked crew of Nashville sidemen, taking suggestions occasionally from them, or showing them how it should go by playing the guitar or piano. Once the taping began, he was smooth and professional. "Some performers take all day to get a recording right," says Guitarist Pete Drake. "Dylan usually gets them on the first or second take. It really wasn't like working. Everything was so easy." Listening to Nashville Skyline is no work either...