Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jews scarred by the memories of the Holocaust, Kahane's slogan "Never Again" was a powerful message. To his discredit, Kahane perverted the reasonable agenda of opposing anti-Semitic violence into a doctrine that justified militance and violence. In the late 1960s, Kahane's Jewish Defense League took up the cause of human rights for Soviet Jews, a noble crusade for a group which was largely ignored at the time. Unfortunately, the League turned to violent tactics such as attempted bombings to achieve its aims...
...change it. "We are rubbish," says a student in Mandalay. "Our tradition and our religion prevent us from getting things done," says a Rangoon intellectual. The pacific teachings of Theravada Buddhism do not, for example, allow self- immolation of the sort practiced by protesting Vietnamese monks in the 1960s...
...late 1960s, when student activism for Afro-Am grew militant, Rosovsky chaired a Faculty committee on Afro-American studies. At that time, Rosovsky and his colleagues suggested in a report to the Faculty that Harvard establish an interdisciplinary committee, rather than a department, to address the Afro-Am issue...
Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) is on a permanent bad-drug trip. This is conveyed in the hallucinatory manner of terrible 1960s movies. It turns out that the drug was administered to him, without his consent, by the government. The passages where this information is vouchsafed remind us of '70s paranoid thrillers. Since the drug was given to him in Vietnam (it was supposed to make everyone in his Army unit more aggressive), we are reminded of the '80s effort to come to terms with the war. And since at one point he is afforded a promising glimpse of the afterlife...
Neither Bush nor any of his governing brotherhood -- Baker, Cheney, Powell, Scowcroft, Sununu -- were at the Tuesday luncheons in the 1960s when a swaggering Johnson thumped a map with his forefinger and unleashed massive American power -- only to fail. Many of the current members of Congress were in grade school when the Vietnam commitment climbed to 540,000 troops. Some of the television reporters now graphically describing the Iraqi commitment on the nightly news were not even born back then. This is a time to let history speak and then to listen to its warnings...