Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interim--his last novel, Principles of American Nuclear Chemistry, was published almost ten years ago--McMahon keeps up appearances as a scientist and teacher. His field is biomechanics--how people work as machines, why animals grow to the sizes and shapes they do, why trees assume graceful shapes. McMahon designed Harvard's indoor track, which features a specially cushioned surface that improves a good runner's mile by as much as several seconds...
...American Soccer League's (ASL's) Pennsylvania Stoners, already decimated by injuries, had only about eight healthy bodies left, as gangling Ronnie Ost loped toward the goal during an offensive drill. A pass, a return pass, and Ost turned his head back to watch his teammate's shot. Moments later, Ost dropped to the ground, tenderly gripping his right knee. He'd run straight into the post...
...will be flying to various ASL cities to join the Stoners each weekend when their season begins in the spring. He will be rejoining what he calls "an emotionally tight" team, all but two of whom have gone through the American college system. "You had to watch your step on the team; if you did something wrong, you'd never hear the end of it," Ost says. Naturally enough, he took a lot of abuse, or "stick" as the team called it, for running into the post. One of the more literate members of the team made up a song...
...University of Wisconsin from the earliest demonstrations in 1963 to the fall of Saigon in 1975. Using rare, archival film obtained from the State Historical Society and authentic US Army combat footage, Silber and Brown carefully parallel the growth of the anti-war movement with the escalation of American involvement in Viet Nam, from the sparsely attended demonstrations against the February, 1964 bombings of North Viet Nam to the 1967 protests against Dow Chemical Co. and the use of napalm and finally to the massive demonstrations in the spring, 1972, to bring the troops home...
...Senator Ernest Gruening. A housewife tells of her early, intangible doubts concerning the war. Balding, thirty year old ex-campus radicals relive their moment in the sun, looking back with a curious mixture of embarassed nostalgia and pride at having been a part of the movement which fundamentally changed American foreign policy and values...