Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Initial Irritation. That is Johnsonian history. The ex-President ignores the long internal battle for Johnson's mind as related by Clifford and others. According to Johnson, there was no battle. He does not say that a draft of his March 31 speech as late as March 28 contained no mention of a bombing halt and took a hard line. Nor does he mention his three bellicose speeches given in March or his initial irritation at U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg's suggestion for a total bombing halt...
...white clapboard New England house where tolerance, patience and kindliness prevail. But his middle-class values are rescued from complacency by an articulate and increasingly outraged social concern. It is difficult to imagine "Marcus Welby, M.D.'' standing trial for conspiracy to subvert the nation's draft laws...
...Hair is ostensibly about Claude, the flower- child leader of the tribe, who burns his library card- instead of his draft card- as a joke. The hippies play at being marry pranksters until their innocence is shattered by Claude's symbolic departure via an acid trip. His sleep is a portent of mad America's destruction of the tribe's hippie ideal...
...These people-those who are waiting for that draft-free vacation in the sky-are among the best people at Harvard. You may not know any of them. You should. Here is your chance...
...place has the same good cold draft, and the new clientele is contented, and it is only the old guys who grumble, as they crowd in now at Harvard Gardens or Whitney's and wish to God there was one place left on earth where they could get away from the old woman and swear a little and argue one more time about the Etruscan Wars...