Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite an encouraging team effort, the Harvard cross country team suffered its fourth defeat of the season Saturday at the hands of an overpowering Northeastern squad...
...more intelligent than Mo Udall; but I was never a Carter supporter. In fact, I supported Fred Harris early in the primaries and later worked for Udall during the Massachusetts primary campaign, in part because Harris's prospects looked pretty bleak. Carter was never more than my third or fourth choice for the Democratic nomination, and by the time of the convention, there was no way I was going to vote for Mr. "Ethnic Purity...
...KOVIC, age 19, lies paralyzed in a Veteran's Administration hospital. He can feel nothing below his chest. He will never again walk nor make love to a woman: his condition is permanent and without hope. A "Yankee Doodle boy born on the Fourth of July," he had gone to Vietnam in defense of the American dream and to fight the scourge of communism. He has returned not as the conquering hero, but as a cripple, his spinal cord shattered by a volley of rifle fire. The young president's words linger in his mind, the words of the president...
Born on the Fourth of July is Kovic's simple and moving account of his ten-year journey out of that bedridden impotence, towards a new reconciliation with life and an expiation of the Vietnam experience. In the telling, he leads us back through a Catholic working-class childhood in Massapequa, Long Island, his high school days and Marine boot camp. It is the story of the maturation of a young man who says his manhood has been "defiled." By the end, Ron Kovic is still paralyzed, but he is no cripple...
Born on the Fourth of July begins and ends with those sketches of Vietnam. Kovic's simple, sparse style, together with a certain personal detachment in his narration, give a chilling precision to the horrors he describes...