Word: antiwar
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...black and abstractly unorthodox style of the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial is not a "humiliating antiwar mockery." The architecture challenges the glory associated with war, a misconception often held by those who have never fought in battle. The monument's gloomy nature is consistent with the reality of war. John Geary San Jose, Calif...
...last time so many people converged on Washington, all with Viet Nam on their minds, was to condemn the war and the U.S. Government. Then, as now, many of the visitors wore blue jeans, beards and long hair. Thirteen years ago this month at the antiwar March Against Death, the demonstrators invented a perfect piece of moral theater by reciting, one at a time, the names of 40,000 Americans who had been killed up to then. Last Wednesday morning, in a chapel at Washington's National Cathedral, the bleak recitation began again, and it seemed all the more...
...everyone likes the memorial. For more than a year, some have snarled that its blackness and abstract unorthodoxy make it a humiliating antiwar mockery. "Too bad it wasn't a simple war," says Scruggs wearily. "Then we could put up a heroic statue of a couple of Marines and leave it at that." (Indeed, next year, to satisfy the critics, a flag and statue of three Viet Nam foot soldiers will be implanted nearby.) Virginia Veteran Jim Borland saw the memorial on Veterans Day and found it "full of ambivalence," like the country's attitude toward...
NEBRASKA. In a state that gave Reagan his third largest majority (72%) in 1980, and where the unemployment rate (5.5%) is among the lowest in the U.S., how does a liberal young Democrat, a former antiwar activist, beat a conservative, competent G.O.P incumbent? "Extraordinary political organization," says Democratic State Chairman Dianna Schimek, "and his charismatic ability to motivate people...
...Turn in the Road) in 1919 and acted in his last one (Love and Money), released earlier this year; of congestive heart failure; in Paso Robles, Calif. Born in Galveston, Texas, Vidor favored epic spectacles and epochal statements in such movies as War and Peace (1956) and his 1925 antiwar triumph, The Big Parade. "My heroes," said Vidor, "don't bellyache; they wake up and they work for changes...