Word: stilling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grinding its ax not for politicians but for politics. Tyranny is always better organized than freedom; beneath the idea of order-in Eastern Europe, says the film, as well as in Greece-truly anarchic forces are loosed upon the world. The Greek letter Z is a symbol for "he still lives." In this case, Z refers to the murdered Deputy. But it is also the spirit of revolt against a stifling government that has banned, in addition to miniskirts, Twain, Chekhov, Beckett, and of course Z. As a work of art, Z can live without Greece. The question...
Niven's lines are given a martini-dry delivery, and the Belmondo-Bourvil team meshes with the cooperative, competitive flair of Graebner and Ashe. Given those talents, the film might have been considerably more. Still, in a sorry season, The Brain is smart enough to pass for comedy. Th-th-that's all, folks...
Despite what the SSS would have us believe, you still can't. All the variable will still have their influence. The new lottery, m???. Nixon, eliminates all kinds of irregularities. It rectifies elitism and discrimination in favor of the rich and the students...
...same upper-middle class will be hiring the same hot young lawyers to win freedom for their sons, while the same ghetto class accepts induction like bad medicine. And the student deferment system remains intact. Confrontation with the I-A status is still postponed as it was before. until after graduation. The unofficial strings that post-graduates have pulled to stave off the draft entirely can still be pulled...
There are three factors relevant to this government loop-hole, which amounts to a continued carte blanche on our young bodies: 1) 1970 draft calls show no sign of decreasing. 2) all exemption and deferment categories are still in full force. and 3) few are the local boards that don't exhaust their source of healthy. undeterred I-A's. We have to conclude that most boards are going to march well down the rank list to fill their quotas, and that only the blessed gentleman at the very end of the list (with birth day numbers of, say, over...