Word: antiwar
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...Hoffman embodied the anxiety of a generation. The Tet offensive shattered America's illusions about military victory in Viet Nam. The assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy shattered the nation's illusions, period. Lyndon Johnson dropped out. Richard Nixon bounced back. The Chicago police and their antiwar adversaries turned the Democratic National Convention into a riot...
...Kennedy, 42, slight, tousle-haired, fatalistic, intense, was a messiah to some, an opportunist to others. He announced his candidacy for the White House four days after another improbable visionary, Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, had almost beaten Lyndon Johnson in New Hampshire's Democratic primary. McCarthy's antipolitical antiwar campaign had galvanized American youth. Beards shaved and locks shorn, they rushed by the thousands to become "Clean for Gene" workers in his crusade. The New York Senator's decision to enter the race split the peace movement. It also brought back to American politics an almost mystical icon...
...fiction writers would have dared to imagine such a debacle. Outside the convention hall: the massed outrage of the counterculture -- antiwar activists, Viet Cong supporters, Yippies (who brought along their own presidential candidate, a porker named Pigasus). Within: the political machine that rumbled forward to confirm Hubert Horatio Humphrey as its nominee. Between the two sides: heavily armed National Guardsmen and the burly, blue- shirted Chicago police, the armed forces of Mayor Richard C. Daley, whose clubbing and gassing of demonstrators brought a new term into the American lexicon -- "police riot." When the beating and rock throwing stopped, the Democratic...
...fixture on the college lecture circuit. -- JAMES LOVELL JR., Apollo 8 astronaut, is executive vice president of Centel Corp., a Chicago telecommunications and electric utilities firm. -- DICK MARTIN, cohost of Laugh-In, is now a television director. His credits include episodes of Newhart and Sledge Hammer. -- EUGENE McCARTHY, antiwar presidential candidate, retired from the U.S. Senate in 1970. He won 30,074 votes in 1988 as presidential candidate of the Pennsylvania-based Consumer Party. -- HUEY P. NEWTON, cofounder of the Black Panthers served three years in prison for shooting an Oakland policeman. In and out of jail since...
Twenty years ago, the Minnesota Senator mobilized the forces of antiwar protest by daring to challenge President Lyndon Johnson. His candidacy then was an odd mixture of poetry and politics, of sardonic humor and philosophical discussion. McCarthy's latest race, on different tickets in different states, is more symbolic than serious, but he is still attempting to change the political system and is still full of irony and sarcasm. His new book, Required Reading, is a collection of his essays. He talked with TIME chief of correspondents John Stacks and New York bureau chief Bonnie Angelo...