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...worriers can rest assured that anarchy is not about to sweep over the country. Even those who are civilly disobedient are not protesting all laws, but just one that they believe unjust. The Antigones of the world are always a tiny minority anyway. Not only must they have conscience developed to an unusual degree, but courage as well. Few people can meet the necessary specifications. The world has always needed the few, though, even when they turn out to be wrong. Law and all social institutions need to be questioned and challenged. The great philosopher Martin Buber was fond...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: III | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

Dialogue. A great deal of this knowledge is connected with his sense of family history. A gibe heard when he published Life Studies was not entirely unjust: "He writes as if Christ was crucified on the Lowell family tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poets: The Second Chance | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...Student Body Presidents and Editors, which comprises the people who recently wrote to President Johnson and met with Secretary Rusk. The petition, to be circulated within about two weeks, will call on the Administration to recognize the dilemma of students who believe that the present war is immoral and unjust and who, nevertheless, may be forced to serve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vietnam: Day of Inquiry | 5/10/1967 | See Source »

Mumma gave his wholehearted support to young men who think the Vietnam war is unjust and refuse the draft. "I am firmly convinced that Lyndon Johnson cannot bind my conscience or the consciences of young men," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mumma Sees War Causing Civil Disobedience in U.S. | 4/28/1967 | See Source »

...holdings in R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Should the University realize a profit from cigarette companies engaged in "as cynical a game as there is in the world--hooking youths and keeping them hooked?" he asked. In addition Monro pointed out that to those who consider the Vietnam war unjust, the various Harvard investments in companies supplying and "getting rich" on the war could be considered unethical. In this category he lumped University holdings in I.B.M. ($30,715,717, as of June, 1966), Texaco ($26,413,567), General Electric ($9,468,048) and Lockheed Aircraft ($689,152). "Where...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: How the University Invests Its Billion | 4/22/1967 | See Source »

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