Word: war
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation, the awarding of degrees to graduating seniors was surprisingly placid, sentimental and traditional. Dissent was spoken of by student valedictorians, and by their elders receiving honorary degrees. But there was also a sense of nostalgia and guarded anticipation of the future -shadowed by the presence of the war in Viet Nam. Following is a firsthand report on the commencement spirit...
...flags, brassy fanfares and the gloomy crenellated battlements of old buildings visible beyond the tall elms. Mingling with the smell of fresh-cut lawns were whiffs of another kind of grass-pot. A few of the 2,420 robed graduates wore white armbands on their sleeves to protest the war and the draft, and two students held up a sheet bearing the legend...
...senior class, Yale officials broke a 75-year-old tradition to allow a student, Class Secretary William M. Thompson Jr., to give a commencement address. Thompson, an honor student in American Studies from Richmond, announced that the class had voted overwhelmingly to dedicate its commencement to opposition to the war. In addition, he said, 143 seniors had pledged to refuse induction if drafted. "The vast majority of Yale seniors want to serve and protect their country," he said, adding that "patriotism is not dead on the college campus today." But patriotism is not "blind obedience"; it is "the constant search...
...Within the next year," said Thompson, "some of us will die, others will be maimed, in a war which has been declared a mistake. And yet it continues. The war must end now, and the fight for our cities, for our nation, for our people must begin." As their degrees were awarded, some of the new Yale graduates released helium-filled blue balloons that soared into the June sky; Thompson's somber message would not disappear so easily...
...male societies himself, Tiger does not provide any tidy answers to some large questions raised by his book. Why have bonds between females, a sociological fact that he acknowledges, been so weak and so much less of a cultural force than male affinity? And in a war-torn world where nonaggressive, peace-loving women outnumber men, why has the female instinct for serenity not determined the political climate? Tiger, who holds that the male instinct for dominance is today as much a menace as a blessing, suggests that it may be time for the hunter to disarm himself by throwing...