Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cambodian people." Most Americans didn't know that their planes had been bombing Cambodia for over a year. But some Kent State students got angry enough to burn down their ROTC building, anyway. The next day, about 20 National Guardsmen marching up a hill away from an antiwar demonstration wheeled and fired at the crowds. They said a sniper had started it, but no one else ever found any evidence of that, and an FBI report later found that the Guard's claim "that their lives were endangered by the students was fabricated subsequent to the event...
...exaggerated reports about his own radical connections. They are more modish than real. The son of a stockbroker in nearby Palo Alto, Weed was graduated from Princeton with a degree in philosophy and physics in 1969; he was captain of the track team and was mildly active in the antiwar movement. True, he was friendly with several members of the university's loosely
...haven't exactly reached historic proportions since then, but it seems possible, at least, that they're showing more life than the last couple of years have suggested. When NAM hurriedly organized a demonstration against a Honeywell Corporation recruiter this spring, 120 people turned out for it--the largest antiwar demonstration here since the spring of 1972. Only about 500 protesters showed up for Gerald Ford's stop at the Harvard Club the next month, but that was more demonstrators than he'd seen anywhere else this year, and a substantial majority of them were Harvard students. Almost 150 students...
...breezy spontaneity that spoke for the swinging London of the '60s. With the artistic freedom that success can buy, Lester then turned his comedic scattergun to more serious and deeply felt purpose. Starting in 1967 he made one troubling social satire about modern materialists (Petulia) and two savage antiwar polemics (How I Won the War and The Bed-Sitting Room). All three fizzled at the box office, and by 1969 Lester found himself effectively out of the movie business...
...country was cowed, when it was not actually collaborating. The networks refused to cover huge antiwar demonstrations. The ghost of Joe McCarthy, though officially vilified, haunted the land...