Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beyond that, there is a practical argument in favor of amnesty. Many deserters, perhaps a majority, are already being quietly discharged, mostly because many military commands are unwilling to go through complicated prosecution procedures. The most celebrated recent example was the case of eight sailors who deserted last October from the carrier Constellation as it made ready to depart for Indochina, and took refuge in a San Diego church. All received a general discharge from the Navy under honorable conditions, which carries no penalty and only slight stigma. Is it fair to let some go and not others...
...further technical point against amnesty is the difficulty in separating the draft evader from the deserter, as Senators McGovern and Taft both do. They would give amnesty only to resisters, presumably on the premise that it is not as bad to avoid service as it is to desert once in. Desertion still sounds like unpardonable cowardice to most Americans. In a sense, this distinction may be discriminatory. An uneducated farm boy from Mississippi probably would not have had the knowledge to evade the draft; any college boy could pick it up in an hour. Or, on the other hand, perhaps...
...stand-up comic, a crooked mortician, a couple of campy killers named Wint and Kidd, and two bikinied bodyguards who call themselves Bambi and Thumper. They strike a gymnastic blow for Women's Lib by effortlessly bouncing Bond, the sexist pig, off the four walls of a luxurious desert hideaway...
...more coherent imagery knits together Steve Tesich's play. Lake of the Woods is Western desert land. All that roams over it now is a cartoon of Kit Carson (Will Hussung). The hero, Winnebago (Hal Holbrook), though Indian by name, is really our old friend the emotionally parched middle-aged American. He has wandered into this wasteland thinking it a fisherman's dream. It is of course the familiar American Dream, bathetically symbolized by Winnebago's dying daughter...
...mother of the Virgin Mary. The Bible has no mention of Anne. The only source is the apocryphal gospel known as the Protoevangelium Jacobi, written in 170-180 A.D. This account has it that Anne and Joachim were devoted, but Anne could not conceive. So Joachim went into the desert to meditate; his wife stayed home to worry. An angel appeared to Anne, Joachim had a vision in the desert, and Joachim and Anne met passionately at the Golden Gate of Jerusalem. Left panel: at top, the marriage of Joachim and Anne; below, the priests of the temple refusing Anne...