During the war, he declared himself a conscientious objector — a move that caused the Illinois bar to deny him admission.
"The impact [of today's climate] has been that there are conscientious people wanting to move away from [the financial] industry.
He exhibited with the important White Stag group, largely composed of conscientious objectors who had moved to Ireland during the second world war, and in the Irish Exhibition of Living Art.
He came under the influence of two uncles on his mother's side: Peter, whom he knew only as a picture in a frame on a table, and who "died in this thing called The War"; and Francis, a conscientious objector who was moved by his brother's death to sign up, going on to become a decorated soldier.
And assuming there are other conscientious wealthy who are moved to do likewise -- volunteer to pay higher taxes -- we accept in advance.
After her first husband drew No. 66 in the Vietnam War draft, he got conscientious objector status and they moved to Oregon; she went to graduate school at Reed College, taught, and then moved to upstate New York.
No sooner did Intel heed its chief executive's pleas for a more conscientious work ethic, than archrival Advanced Micro Devices moves to even the score.
"The good/bad thing about football," he observes, "is that it moves too quickly for your conscientious objections to keep pace".
Mr. Weaver gives a wonderfully conscientious performance, imbuing his character with a moving sense of aggrieved dignity that tempers the writing's occasional tendencies to reduce him to a cutely exasperating old fogey.
GEOMETRY OF FIRE The Rattlestick Playwrights Theater will present Stephen Belber's drama about Mel, an investment banker turned Marine sniper, recently returned from Iraq, who moves in with his father, a conscientious objector.
