Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When antiwar activists look at an inverted Y inside a circle, they see a symbol for peace. But some school officials in Pasadena, Texas, detect something satanic: an upside-down broken cross that signifies the defeat of Christianity. This week they will vote on a new student dress code that would allow principals to outlaw the sign...
...relegated to the remote periphery of the political discourse. Now I think they are being heard at the center. And I think those farthest from the seats of power tend to be nearer to the heart of things. It was true in the civil rights movement and in the antiwar movement. Now the same thing is true of arms control...
...prayer, then bustling to their tasks. Their language is semimilitary, befitting such constant readers of the Book of Exodus. These are churchgoing, middle-class couples, uneasy in the shabby clothes they have put on for prison service later in the day. Not the demonstrators of civil rights or antiwar protests, these are a new breed: "Bible Christians" increasingly determined to restore their country...
...peace groups. "They offer theories and rhetoric, but we offer $25,200 for college," says Lieut. Colonel John Cullen, a spokesman for the U.S. Army Recruiting Command. Still, the Department of Defense next month plans to argue in favor of overturning a 1988 federal-court decision that would allow antiwar activists equal access to career days in Atlanta high schools. In a landmark case five years ago, an interfaith peace and justice group called Clergy and Laity Concerned won the right to promote its cause among Chicago high school students. Yet in San Diego, the site of a large naval...
Both shows reflect the way dissent has become domesticated in America; what were radical antiwar views in the '60s are now mainstream TV attitudes. High- ranking officers and other authority figures are mostly buffoons, insensitive martinets or corrupt sleaze balls. Heroism, at least as the military tries to market it, is usually a sham; public relations is the name of the game. A lieutenant in Tour of Duty gets drunk in a bar and empties the place by wildly firing his gun. A few seconds later, a bomb explodes inside, and he is hailed as a hero. Notes a smarmy...