Last week, the New York Times ran an opinion piece entitled “Why the Graduate is a Vietnam Movie. ” In the piece, author Beverly Gray explains that “in June 1967, while the film was still in production, President Lyndon Johnson signed a revamped Military Selective Service Act, signaling that within the year deferments for most graduate students would … Continue reading Cornell’s Steve Ludsin: “The Graduate” and the end of youthful optimism →