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...became the La Porte pariah when she told the American Legion there would be no military rites at the funeral. Although her husband shared her bitterness, he was too busy to share in all of her protest activities. She traveled to Washington to participate in antiwar demonstrations and confront Senators and Congressmen. She corresponded with other parents whose sons had been killed in Viet Nam. The Mullens also used Michael's Government insurance money to publish a full-page ad in the Des Moines Register. It consisted of 714 crosses representing Iowa's Viet Nam War dead...
...vision is more disturbing for what it leaves out than for what it depicts. His report displays no concern for the very real problems that have occasioned government intervention, and no sense of the historical failure of private institutions to confront those problems without external pressure. The implied message is clear: discrimination, invasion of students' privacy and abuse of human subjects may or may not go on at Harvard, but they are in any case less trouble some than the government's attempt to prevent them. Bok has vigorously attacked the symptoms and even the medicine, but he has ignored...
...book implies that Pat and Dick had long been cool toward each other -too cool to be able to confront each other as the end neared. Pat had confided to a physician that they "had not been close since the early '60s." Pat rejected her husband's advances, and this, the book says, "seemed to shut something off inside Nixon...
...this point in the essay, Marcus compares Dickens's unwillingness to confront the constraints imposed upon the self by the social world with Hegel's insistence that true freedom can only be realized through the experience of its negation, of oppression. Marcus goes on to argue that Dickens placed this experience of negation and the pursuit of true human freedom it implices at the core of his novelistic career. Marcus's achievement here is threefold: he has shown how the self-contained world of language gives way to the social world for Dickens, how literary analysis must lead into...
Today, an issue being pushed on campuses around women's rights, especially in relation to affirmative action, is the so-called Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the Constitution. Especially in this presidential election year, a number of women's groups have organized to confront candidates on the ERA and push for its support. The biggest push for passage has always been from educated, financially well-off women who want a bigger slice of the American pie--equal opportunity to be politicians, lawyers, doctors and business executives. But ever since the ERA first came up 50 years ago working women have...