Word: emersons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nation energetically repressed the whole experience of Viet Nam for much of the '70s. All the logic of the Me Generation was actually headlong flight from the lethal surprises found in obscure Cochin China. Journalist Gloria Emerson, who wrote with brilliant indignation about the war, pronounced bitterly a few years ago: "We are a people who drop the past, and then forget where it has been put." But the war in Viet Nam cannot be discarded with impetuous American blitheness. The civic and psychic mechanics don't work that way. The men (and as many as 7,500 women...
...drawn at random. The "Short Takes" section is unceasingly left-political--Rennie Davis converts to eastern religion, FBI informant unmasked, grape strike update, "Vietnam-American Friendship Week starts Monday," "Supporters of striking Shell Oil workers are demonstrating Monday." Names mentioned include Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Ngo Vinh Long, Gloria Emerson, Frances Fitzgerald, Ann Froines, Michael Ansara. The lead article was on a company that sold a how-to suicide package. The second story was by a reporter who was getting obscene phone calls. She talked to her harasser and changed his life. Lots of notes on gay politics, an update...
Mann would have withheld his cool wrath from the Nazis in his letter to the University of Bonn. There would have been no greeting from Emerson to Whitman "at the beginning of a great career"no Groucho Marx to T.S. Eliot ("my best to you and your lovely wife, whoever she may be"). Had St. Paul decided to speak instead of write, the New Testament would have become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal...
...district's founding pastor, Tim LaHaye, in January. The sacking followed a series of disputes about school policy that, in Barton's view, illustrate the dark side of the Christian school movement. First there was the narrowness of the curriculum. Says Barton: "Almost all authors considered humanists-Emerson, Thoreau, even Shakespeare-are often eliminated wholesale from the curriculum at many schools." When Barton opposed sending the school band to a political rally for Ronald Reagan, he was overruled by the superintendent. When he began to discuss the role of partisan politics in the school with other teachers...
Perhaps the novel is not right for Vietnam. Gloria Emerson certainly comes as close as anyone to creating the definitive Vietnam work with her passionate profiles of individuals in Winners and Losers. Maybe the right medium is film; but Apocalypse Now veered away from Vietnam too soon to stake a claim, and The Deer Hunter, in its attempt to explain why all wars exist, failed altogether. Or perhaps it's television--a televised benediction for the televised war. But television in America wouldn't ever be willing to risk the necessary time and talent for such a project...