Word: american
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is the only way "to make retreat from Vietnam morally acceptable to the American people," he said...
...said, simply withdrawing from Vietnam without making some attempt to protect those who might otherwise be slaughtered by the Communists would be "too easy, too cheap." Such a course is one the American people would never accept, he added...
After Calkins had made his initial statement, several of his 20 or more listeners engaged him in a debate concerning the basic principles underlying American foreign policy choices...
...number of students took issue in particular with Calkins's view that the chief goal of American policy is to reduce the chances of a nuclear...
...America were still insisting on their own exclusivity; erudite and brilliant teachers the generation which included John Berryman, Delmore Schwartz, and Randall Jarrell were acknowledged as a tradition in themselves. Berryman still is one, but Jarrell and Schwartz, along with Theodore Roethke, are dead and, since their deaths. American poetry has been seized by an urgency other than the one to which they devoted their lives...