Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vietnam is his immediate concern. He talks about it in his courses, writes about it in letters to the New York Times, and supports anti-war activities on campus. At a Faculty meeting soon after the Dow demonstration, he proposed that a student-Faculty committee be created to discuss the University's role in the war. Elections of student delegates are about to begin now, and soon the committee will be a reality...
...remains a leader, as his anti-war activities demonstrate. But he extrovertive side to his personality isn't entirely dominant: he gives the impression that, if his concern over Vietnam hadn't stirred his conscience, he would be content, even anxious, to lead a quiet self-effacing academic life...
...yourself requires. I am struck, however, by the quite insufferable insensitivity and stuffiness of your letter. I do regret the sense of moral superiority that produces self-righteous judgments about student behavior in 1967 without serious acknowledgment of the possibility that the continued enlargement of the war in Vietnam might create deeply troubling moral and intellectual problems for this college generation...
...reasonably intelligent or humane man had written your letter, he would have begun with a generous and candid recognition of the stringent moral and emotional predicament created for young men today by the war in Vietnam. Recognizing this, he would then have moved on to the problem raised by the drummer from Dow. He would properly and vigorously have condemned the physical detention of this hapless individual. But he would also have distinguished, as your letter did not, between my son and many others, whose only offense was a subsequent expression of solidarity through handing in their bursar's cards...
...letter to Robert W. Haney, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Adams House, Schlesinger said that "any reasonably intelligent or humane man . . . (would have recognized) the stringent moral and emotional predicament created for young men today by the war in Vietnam...