Word: alamos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prisoner. Most of all there was Lyndon the patriot, who choked up at the sight of Old Glory on a foreign field and could say-because he wanted to believe it in defiance of the facts-that his great grandfather had died in the Alamo with Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett. Johnson's patriotic fervor made him implacable on Viet Nam, the tragedy that pulled him from office. He was determined that "I'm not going down in history as the first American President to lose a war." He related Viet Nam to Texas: "Just like the Alamo...
...against all of this--and much more--that Farenthold and the Dirty Thirty had to take their stand. Katz analogizes them to the 200 men at the Alamo who held off ten thousand of Santa Anna's crack troops for over ten days. It is an apt metaphor, at least for those who view the mission's defenders as heroes, for in their defeat Farenthold and her comrades at least made the first significant attempt at reforming Texas politics in several decades...
People's Park in Berkeley, Calif., is the Alamo of the anti-Establishment young. Three years ago last week, a protest demonstration over whether the park belonged to the University of California or the street people and students erupted into an appalling melee between students and police. One man died, another was blinded. The university covered part of the plot with asphalt and bounded it with an 8-ft.-high fence...
...first episode last week, "The Ordeal of a President," dealt-confusingly-with the political maneuverings behind America's entry into World War I. But it is a promising series, and future segments will re-create the stories of Paul Revere, Lewis and Clark, and the defenders of the Alamo. Another noteworthy attempt by CBS at quality programming for youngsters is In the News. This series of eight 2½-minute news segments will be dropped into the Saturday-morning schedule at half-hour intervals...
Though most street Christians share such a fundamentalist streak, no two houses or communes are exactly alike. On Sunset Strip, for instance, Evangelist Tony Alamo, a onetime record promoter, preaches hellfire and damnation to anyone who refuses to live by the Gospel. He and his wife Susan guard their flocks rigidly at Christian Foundation, their church and commune...