Word: spock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first Dow demonstration, and it ignored them last week by shutting the door in their face at Massachusetts Hall. Soon, however, it will not be able to ignore the problem. If a coherent Draft Project is set up here, it will probably be an illegal organization (after the Spock tests). Then the University is going to be forced to say "yes" or "no" to harboring such an organization. That kind of confrontation cannot be avoided, and the decision will show quite a bit about Harvard's neutrality
...military acitons are unjustifiable on any grounds. Whether we blame our leaders or our own passive complicity, we are all "honorable murderers" or "serviceable villains" until we protest these actions. Each must choose his own individual form of protest, from a private non serviam to public support for Dr. Spock, Senator McCarthy, and other courageous men who have steadfastly opposed our present military policy. Sanford Gifford, M.D. Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Harvard medical School
...Resistance is the most romantic part of the anti-draft movement. It is based on a single moral act--turning in your registration card--and a simple political philosophy, "If enough people do it, we have to win." With its adult support group (Coffin and Spock are among the leaders), the Resistance aims its straightforward acts of courage toward a moral confrontation with the United States Government. The plan was that thousands of resisters would be arrested for not carrying their draft cards. The hope was that the arrests would create national indignation...
Individual draft counselling is what the BDRG office originally was meant for. There are seven counsellors who confer with an average of 15 persons a day, six days a week. Before the recent Spock indictments, the number who requested advice was less than half that many. According to Hector, a majority of those who come in already have deferments lined up, and most of the rest of them find one through the counselling. "Only two have actually gone on to face induction," Hector said. "We usually never see a person more than once," he added...
...Among the quasi-Thoreaus: Nelson Algren, James Baldwin, Eric Bentley, Allen Ginsburg, Paul Goodman, Betty Friedan, Dwight Macdonald, Henry Miller, Terry Southern, Benjamin Spock, William Styron...