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...they do not permit a man to have a lawyer when he comes before either his draft board or an appeals board. As a result, most lawyers advise their clients to bring a witness to take notes on everything that is said (draft boards do not always keep adequate written records of such appearances). Those claiming conscientious-objector status are urged to question board members aggressively, in the hope that they will reveal for the record a lack of understanding of U.S. v. Seeger. In that decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a man may be classified...
Student speakers, charging that the school's competition divides and isolates students, argued for complex curricular reform including pass-fail grading, mandatory written assignments, and smaller classes...
...major faults of American belles-lettres has been the failure of most fiction-writers to confront realistically the problem of black and white in America. Too often both blacks and whites have pandered to the stercotypes of the public (and to the dollar sign). or else have written as it a sense of grievance and the element of anger intrinsically produce good fiction. Fortunately. John A. Williams is one American novelist who has avoided these dead-ends...
...puritans are not got rid of that easily. Miss Drabble has composed her dazzling and anguished novel as a "schizoid third-person dialogue," with alternating sections written as "I" and as "she." "She" is mostly the girl who dares to. "I" is Freud's good old superego, self-recriminating, doing society's work even when society itself has lost its enthusiasm to play enforcer. It is the "I" that has the last word. The closing sentence of the novel reads significantly: "I prefer to suffer, I think...
...provision was written into the Senate bill on an amendment by Sen. J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.), Fulbright has long opposed Defense Department research into social science areas and domestic affairs. Conservative members of the House and Senate support the provision as a way to "take a cheap shot at the intellectuals and the colleges," according to one staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations committee...