Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...absolute power was absolute independence, then they would pick absolute independence--and he, still trying to induce the sovereign to act intelligently, would be as much an enemy as the sovereign himself. Two centuries later, people would hear that leaving briefcases on the floor to hold an illegal antiwar march presaged the end of education and government as they had known it, and decide that maybe that would be a good thing. Similarly, Hutchinson's undeniabley correct prediction...
...dissident alumni movement started in the late 1960s, when conservative grads and students began to organize to counter the antiwar movement and politicizing of the campuses. The groups are motivated in about equal measure by political conservatism and nostalgia, and by a strong tinge of social snobbery. One CAP appeal for support wistfully calls for the "early consolidation-not of the Old Princeton, not of what is being recognized as the New Princeton, but of the Best of All Possible Princetons." What that might mean is unclear. What it most certainly does not mean is girls in the dorm...
...Rubin seemed headed. He wrote to a dozen publishers, but he had no reputation, no work to show and no agent. Most houses "would write back and say, 'Sorry, fella, no one wants to buy a first novel about Viet Nam.' " Eventually, George Braziller, publisher of the antiwar book 365 Days, and Edward Seaver, his fiction editor, saw half of the final draft and advised Rubin to keep polishing. So did Wife Maura, whose job as a consultant for conservation groups in Washington allowed Rubin to stay home in Alexandria, Va., and write...
...Rubin, and the villagers' perilous exposure to the more "civilized" Americans and Vietnamese saddened him: "I could see as early as 1962 that the Montagnards' time was running out." That somber perception became the dominant strain in his novel. Says Rubin: "The Barking Deer began as an antiwar satire but developed into an epitaph for the Montagnards, for all such folks everywhere...
...rebels." Though he may not have actually helped plan the coup,Spínola was obviously prepared to act as its leader once it succeeded. Both Spínola and his boss. Army Chief of Staff General Francisco Costa Gomez, were kicked out in March because of their antiwar views on the African conflict...