Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faults of The Last Tycoon as a movie are mainly those of the book, to which screenwriter Harold Pinter has, on the whole, been faithful. What Fitzgerald left us when he died was only a fragment of a novel, a draft of a story still halfway from completion. Fitzgerald's narrator is Cecilia Brady, the daughter of Stahr's business partner, who views Hollywood "with the resignation of a ghost assigned to a haunted house." It is through Cecilia, whose gaze is at first glazed by infatuation and later embittered by cynicism, that we meet and experience Monroe Stahr...
...said he was "ambivalent" toward Carter's pardon of alleged draft evaders. He added that he thinks Carter has done a good job in trimming the number of bureaucratic positions in the White House staff...
McKinney reportedly supported the students' basic proposals on financial aid and for the first time explicitly endorsed the creation of a GSAS committee to review minority admissions policy as well as draft the job description for the proposed minority recruiter post...
...roots of both the war they were fighting and the society they were invading. And on this side of the ocean, it took almost a decade of American involvement in Vietnam for the public to realize the injustice we were perpetrating in Southeast Asia. It was not until the draft began to reach into middle-class homes that the war became a major political issue here, and when the draft ended, so did the public outcry against the bombing in Vietnam...
...veterans she talks to suggests that if there are any, they certainly aren't the people who fought on either side in Vietnam. And for everyone else, it is easier to forget the war ever happened than it is to worry about veterans' rights or about amnesty for draft resisters or people with less than honorable discharges or about reparation payments to Vietnam. In a time when America seems to be trying hard to leave Vietnam forever, Emerson is probably right: it is important to remember, to spell the names correctly, to know the provinces, before we are persuaded that...