Word: antiwar
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...mail from him over this), a blockmate went to Amazon.com and found that not only does he have a sketchy resume (sample titles include: Dixie’s Dirty Secret: The True Story of How the Government, the Media, and the Mob Conspired to Combat Integration and the Vietnam Antiwar Movement, Last Suppers: If the World Ended Tomorrow, What Would Be Your Last Meal? and Dixie Chicks: Down-Home and Backstage), but the reviews of his past work were less than glowing (i.e. “Throughout the book, Dickerson’s judgment is questionable...
Baby boomers from the antiwar neighborhoods are especially susceptible to this ruthless amorality. Convinced long since of their unassailable idealism and virtue - Didn't they end the war in Vietnam? Didn't they win the battles for civil rights and women's rights? - they are ignorant of their own capacity for evil. The thought would not occur to them. It is an impossibility. They, evil? Ironically, theirs is much the same dangerous innocence for which the prophetic novelist Graham Greene ("The Quiet American") arraigned Americans in Indochina in the mid-1950s, well before they had entered into their fiasco there...
...three greatest American presidents, revolved around war. The meaning of another great president, Franklin Roosevelt, centered first upon great depression, and then upon world war. The war in Vietnam destroyed the presidencies of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon (his Watergate schemes having been cooked up to counter the antiwar movement.) The Cold War dominated American politics from Truman to Reagan...
...because he was a legacy kid," says his classmate Robert Birge. W. upheld the tradition of the gentleman's C; when undergraduates renounced frat life as a waste of time, he made it the center of his social life. His run-in with the law came not during an antiwar sit-in or a civil rights march but on a raucous night when he and his fraternity brothers "liberated" a Christmas wreath from a local hotel to decorate Deke house. Though he was born in New Haven, it was at Yale he decided to tell people he was from Texas...
...wonder if that was the last time. Over the decades, marches on Washington degenerated, it seemed, into merely coercive shows of force, of political plumage display. Sometimes, of course - especially in the vast antiwar outpourings of the late '60s - they possessed anarchic energy. And they sometimes accomplished their purposes. But the art form (happening, circus, pep rally, Chautauqua, media spectacle, political threat) has devolved into special-interest pleading. In addition, there is the risk that good causes may be contaminated or embarrassed, as by appalling jokes during the recent gay and lesbian march on Washington, cracks that made Minister Farrakhan...