Word: antiwar
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...from the Vietspeak of "fragging" and "pacification" to the home-brewed jargon of "pigs" and "fascist conspiracies." The campuses have again begun to turn silent (as in the '50s), not in a spirit of tranquillity but with a sense of impotence and self-interest. The rage of the antiwar demonstrators has dissipated without a true sense of initiative or accomplishment. The once powerful liberals, pursued by such unforgiving histories as David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest, still try to understand their guilt and re-invent their philosophy...
...when 110,000 people poured onto Boston Common. The Harvard Faculty debated whether formally to endorse the Moratorium. I was just working out the distinction between professional football and the NLF. In November, there was a second moratorium, this time drawing a quarter of a million people to Washington. Antiwar leaders were gaining confidence after all, Nixon could not ignore protests of such immense proportions, could he? He did. In fact, he has fulfilled the prophesy of an editorial The Crimson published on the day of the October Moratorium which warned...
...resembling a skinny Burl Ives pulled out his guitar, and began to sing an antiwar version of "Down by the Riverside." The crowd of people encircling him joined in the chorus, "I ain't gonna to study war no more..." He then veered to the original version, "I'm gonna kiss every doggone girl, down by the riverside," and proceeded to kiss and be kissed by every doggone man, woman and child around him. Nearby, a middle-aged couple carried a sign with the words BREAD NOT BOMBS, and handed out free chunks of home-made rye bread...
...antiwar movement must still play a crucial role in educating Americans about Vietnam antiwar activists Lom Hayden and Jane Fonda said here Friday night...
Fonda told the audience of about 500 in Sanders Theater that the role of the antiwar movement would be primarily educational. "As long as we don't know who the Vietnamese are, as long as we don't see their faces, we are doomed to retain the thorn of Vietnam in our side," she said...