Word: anti-vietnam
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...election of student radicals in Berkeley that provoked so much anxiety in Cambridge that year, the conditions have been quite different from those existing here. Before the Berkeley election, 10,000 new voters, mostly students, were added to the rolls. The atmosphere on campus, still charged with anti-Vietnam sentiments, was much more highly charged politically compared with the disinterested attitude that pervades Harvard...
...year-old Roman Catholic priest, upset 28-year-incumbent Philip Philbin, a conservative Democrat, and Republican John McGlennon, one out of every five Newton voters was listed as a Drinan volunteer. Brookline, Linsky's home town, is composed predominantly of wealthy liberals who were attracted by Drinan's strong anti-Vietnam, pro-Israel stands. In the October 30 poll published by the Globe, Drinan led Linsky in Brookline by more than ten points. The returns from these two areas, then, were hardly a surprise. The cities and towns in the west where Philbin had done well in the west where...
...course very much "message" oriented, the lessons often fall on willing, if not welcome, ears. The routines and the film anticipate that a certain set of opinions will be held by the audience, that the young military people and the young movie-goers will share its anti-military, anti-Vietnam position. Emile de Antonio's "In the Year of the Pig" presented a case against the war that must be considered even by those who might favor combat; in FTA the case is closed, with the laughter more of a reiteration than a recognition...
...fact, account for most of his influence among other writers and performers. But his hold over the public cannot be explained so simply. His early songs filled a great spiritual need in America, a need manifested clearly in the historical coincidence of the civil rights movement and the anti-Vietnam protests. This is the need to believe "we shall overcome"--easily, dramatically, totally, and soon. Dylan's later music is far more challenging, more realistic (though not at all compromised), digging up the substrata of human pain, anger, and despair. The irony is that if we could respond to these...
...depth of revolutionary commitment; the opposition to the "no knock" search law shows the growth of civil libertarianism; the movie of The Strawberry Statement indicates artistic fervor; the Hare Krishna Society and the Jesus freaks glow with revolution; and so do all students, all women, all liberals, and all anti-Vietnam War demonstrators...