Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Richard M. Nixon, in Cambridge to hire Law students, says that "the Vietnam war is going better for the United States." John Kenneth Galbraith, H. Stuart Hughes, and Mark DeWolfe Howe defend students' right to protest, and there are an antiwar rally in the Yard and an antiwar march to the Boston Common. Graduate students and undergraduates who were 2-S are reclassified...
Long gone are the days when the Radio Priest called Franklin Delano Roosevelt "the great liar and betrayer," when he joined with Huey Long's third-party movement and loudly boomed his weekly antiwar message across the country from Detroit's Station WJR. On the eve of the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood, Father Charles Coughlin, 74, silenced by Edward Cardinal Mooney in 1940 at F.D.R.'s behest, held a press conference at his rectory in Royal Oak, Mich., and allowed: "I understand more about charity than I did 40 years...
...conflict in terms that Americans can readily understand and believe. But if there has been too little enlightenment from the top, there has been too much obfuscation from the nation's academic and intellectual communities, whose present chorus of dissent has reached a volume unparalleled since the antiwar diatribes...
Spreading the Word. For their part, Fulbright and his antiwar coterie in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee continued their assault on the Administration. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, making his eighth appearance before the committee this year, proceeded to outline-in extensive detail-the legal basis for the U.S. commitment in South Viet Nam. The Secretary's discourse ended in a hot-tempered exchange among Democratic members of the committee...
Died. Erwin Piscator, 72, German director-producer and theatrical gadfly who in the 1920s made Berlin's theater ring with the cries of tortured humanity in such productions as the bitingly antiwar Good Soldier: Schweik (1928), fled the Nazis in 1933, but returned after the war to continue his contro versial themes, most notably in 1963, when he staged the world premiere in Berlin of The Deputy, Rolf Hochhuth's stinging indictment of Pope Pius XII's wartime attitude toward Jews; of a ruptured gall bladder; in Starnberg, Bavaria...