Word: voluntaryism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The groups which had so effectively presented the anti-war position in the spring of 1915 were considerably weaker by the fall of the same year as the consensus of student opinion shifted toward the preparedness position. The CRIMSON, which had opposed U.S. preparations for war the previous spring, changed...
Rolls closed on Medicare registration last week. Some 17.3 million people over 65 (an incredible 91% of those eligible) had signed up for the voluntary $3-a-month insurance plan that entitles them to bargain-rate doctors' care beginning July 1. On that day, a total of 19.1 million...
The "central issue"? Said the report: "The national Government's response to the compelling cry of the Negro American for justice and true equality has not been matched by state and local government, by business and labor, the housing industry, educational institutions and the wide spectrum of voluntary organizations...
Others have not been so canny. Press coverage, says the Washington Star's Richard Critchfield, has played into the hands of Buddhism's political kingmakers. "I don't think Tri Quang would have really existed without the American press," he says. "He has fooled an awful lot...
But the pacifist movement was not completely dead. At the end of January a majority of students at the Divinity school signed a petition which was sent to Congress opposing any form of conscription on the grounds that it was un-Christian, contrary to American ideals, and self-defeating since...