Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Washington is thick with monuments, several of them quite affecting. But as + the Viet Nam War was singular and strange, the dark, dreamy, redemptive memorial to its American veterans is like no other. "It's more solemn," says National Park Service Ranger Sarah Page, who has also worked at the memorials honoring Lincoln, Washington and Jefferson. "People give it more respect." Lately it has been the most visited monument in the capital: 2.3 million saw it in 1984, about 45,000 a week, but it is currently drawing 100,000 a week. Where does it get its power--to console...
...mood of the nation is out of harmony with most of the countercultural forces that gave the U.S. a certain nihilistic energy in the '60s. The war and the counterculture could at certain moments seem part of the same rock 'n' roll, drawing their energy from one dark circuit. Grunts in Viet Nam sometimes carried their tape players into firefights. They would listen to the Grateful Dead, the Rolling Stones, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs...
...melancholy phrase on a dark night in February 1968, Johnson summed up his war that failed. "We're not going to surrender," he said grimly. Just a month later, he decided he had had enough and announced his decision not to seek re-election. So after all, it was the Alamo. Except in the end, Lyndon Johnson's war was taken away from...
...Parker's in the dark about the visitors, though, that's nothing compared to how the Bruins must feel--the Crimson shell will feature just two oarsmen from last year's varsity...
...twin, Ben. The agreement: Willie will have "what the world calls brains"; Ben will "get out of this cave first." He will play Abel to Willie's Cain, and also be a deadly left-handed hitter, deadly that when, years later, he slams a teammate's pitch into a dark summer night on a date, he hits Clare Bishop in the forehead and she goes into a coma...