Word: antiwar
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...1950s Beat Generation along with William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, Ginsberg first raged into public view in 1956 with Howl, a profane tirade that railed against a conformist society and dealt, rather graphically, with his homosexuality. In the '60s and '70s, he was active in both the hippie and antiwar movements. His poetry prefigured punk and New Age, encompassing protest and psychedelics, drawing inspiration from yoga, Buddhism, Native American mysticism, the Torah and fellow poets like William Carlos Williams...
...future Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who hired Raines as a summer intern when Moynihan was appointed to the new post of urban-affairs adviser by Richard Nixon. At 20, Raines found himself briefing the President and most of his Cabinet on campus unrest two weeks before a nationwide antiwar moratorium. Raines' own experiences as a protester five months earlier may have provided his first taste of how inhospitable the "vital center" can be. He led a demonstration against both the militant students who occupied a university building and the administration' that decided to respond by calling in 400 policemen. Both...
Gurule is certainly a unique candidate: born into poverty in Trinidad, he had his first job at age nine, herding goats. After moving to the U.S., he became a vocal political activist, arrested for--and acquitted of--carrying a concealed weapon at a 1970 antiwar rally. Now a city councilman, Gurule also owns the Community Corrections Service of Pueblo, where he's known for his no-nonsense approach to inmates...
...side from New England shipping magnates. Both graduated from prep school into Ivy League colleges. But while Weld moved on to Oxford and Harvard Law, Kerry went to Vietnam and returned with a chestful of medals and enough firsthand disillusionment to lead 5,500 vets in a 1971 antiwar march. Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Kerry caught much of the country's mood: "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake...
...Tommy Facenda who sang High School U.S.A.?") Bennett opposed the Vietnam War, but he respected the men who served there. He grew sickened by much of what he saw at Harvard: privileged youth skipping class to smoke dope and watch soap operas, and twisting the antiwar movement into an attack on America. Like another former Democrat, Ronald Reagan, Bennett thought less that he was turning right than that his party was turning crazy...