Word: folksing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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To most G.I.s, the withdrawal is a political rather than a military move, and one that will have little immediate effect on either them or the war. "This business is meant to pacify the folks at home," commented a military policeman in Saigon. "We're going to stay here for...
But shadows keep falling across the story. Those grandparents of Ellen who purse their lips in disapproval but lend their Michigan lodge for the honeymoon are less comic old folks than vaguely sinister agents provocateurs. Nor is the northwestern shore of Lake Michigan the Garden of Eden it appears to...
Other forms of self-commemoration do not appeal to Nelms. "I don't believe in education," he explained when college presidents tried to convince him that schools were nobler than booze. "I only went through the fourth grade myself-and I consider that the last year was wasted." When...
MARTIN began withdrawing from things after that. He didn't date any more for the entire semester, or work, or play, or even go to biology lab. All he did was sit in the living room in the old chair and stare at the telephone, which seemed to be afraid...
Ultimately, the sense of pain and loss conveyed by the book is profound. All Pharr's characters are destroyed in one way or another, even Blueboy. "We made a terrible mistake," he says on his deathbed. "We forgot that white folks is still here. We forgot we was operating...