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...Wary. Caught up in the beat of his time is Jonas Gould, an athletic and good-looking young Bronxite, working as a printer's apprentice. Reaching for adulthood but not yet firmly grasping it. Jonas at 21 must confront the relevance of a world bound for war with his own personal fate. The burden of this novel is Jonas' growing realization that though he may not know quite what he wants for himself, he must be wary of all who seem to know exactly what they want from...
...military treated anti-war resistance just as they would have handled common criminals. Had they arrested demonstrators in a firm but orderly fashion, instead of clubbing them before dragging them to the paddywagons, the violence would have been contained. Instead of provoking a bloodbath, the U.S. Marshals could have confronted each of the demonstrators individually, told him that he was under arrest for trespassing and lead him away. Certainly by nightfall, when most of the press had left, the large majority of the demonstrators would have preferred this to being beaten. Each side felt it had a duty: the military...
Finally, dozens of anti-war groups--under the leadership of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam--decided to march on Washington and "confront the warmakers." Plans were made for a vague sort of civil disobedience, something that transcended burning draft cards. The marchers were finally permitted to demonstrate in a marked-off area close to the Pentagon, within sight of the E Ring where the Joint Chiefs of Staff plan the bombing raids over North Vietnam...
...conceivable that Magraw, like some radicals, desired a harsh reaction from the Administration, figuring that students--feeling oppressed and frustrated on parietals--would rise up in a grass roots version of student power to confront the Administration. Magraw has said that he became "more impressed" with the potential of civil disobedience tactics after talking with other student leaders at the National Student Association convention last summer. But if that was Magraw's strategy, he badly misjudged both his own organization and the student body. The overwhelming majority of HUC members are committed to change within the system. They want...
...with him. In Howard's words: "We have a great deal of research on both the curriculum idea and the Roxbury project. We are moving from the intellectual chair to make ourselves felt as a constructive force in the Harvard community but are ever cognizant of our obligation to confront the broader issues facing the black community...