Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...purpose of our civil disobedience was to communicate our sincere opposition to the war in Indochina and to the Selective Service System which provides men for that war. When we appeared in the Newton courtroom I had the feeling that there were a great many people who supported our stand on the war but who were unwilling to condone even minor violations...
...second motion, introduced by Roderick Firth, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, stipulated that in dividual professors arrange their fall courses "in a way that will not penalize students" who are out of classes for two weeks before the elections...
...reaches out for fresh opinion. There is already evidence of this in Nixon's Washington. John Mitchell, the patron of Clement Haynsworth Jr. and G. Harrold Carswell, recently expressed his concern at "the amount of popular cynicism about the Supreme Court." Before a group of his own restive civil rights lawyers, he pointed proudly to his department's accomplishments for Southern blacks; in one year, it added 108 school districts to the 162 desegregated from 1954 to 1969. When an ugly confrontation seemed likely between Mississippi state police and students at Jackson State after the shootings, he ordered Assistant Attorney...
...Andrew Young, 38, a black minister of the United Church of Christ and a former aide to the late Martin Luther King Jr., is seeking a congressional seat from Georgia for a different reason. Though opposed to the war, he wants political office in order to enact more extensive civil rights legislation...
...somehow responsible for the nation's ills, and that things would get better if they would just pipe down. As the Washington Post editorialized last week: "The apparent presidential-vice-presidential view [is] that the economy can be saved or the casualty rate in Indochina lowered or civil peace restored if only Harriet Van Home will shape...