Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite typical of Nixon's Washington. Alone among all the higher officials of the Justice Department, he sports long sideburns and bright shirts with clashing ties. But as the Attorney General's chief counsel, Rehnquist has been a hardline Nixonian: early on he became noted as an outspoken Government hawk on questions of law-and-order...
...particular appeal-may have passed. For the first time in her political career, Mrs. Hicks did not finish first in a Boston primary, and she has lately reversed many of her earlier positions. She supports the antiwar Mansfield amendment, while earlier she had been a raging hawk...
...Kids Would Do With Film. Nor was he interested in making some film about Attitudes and Relationships, or The Question of Authority and-or Democracy In The Classroom. "(I) really wanted to make a Tarzan film," he said. As it turned out, the movie was "Son of the Hawk," the story of a mysterious hawk-faced intruder who terrorizes a junior high school and turns the students and principal green. "Son of the Hawk" was not a very "responsible" lesson in film-making, but Herndon and the kids in his class had a great time with their fantasies, while incidentally...
...broader sense, Ellsberg's turnabout from confident hawk to disillusioned dove parallels the Viet Nam sentiments of millions of Americans. That sure feeling of the early '60s that a quick application of U.S. manpower and machines would speedily hurl back the insurgent Communists and assure survival of an independent South Viet Nam faded years ago. The stalemate and suffering, My Lai and drugs, now make it all seem disastrous to many. If all the plans had worked, of course, there would have been no Pentagon paper revelations, no Ellsberg on TV, little talk about the immorality...
...marked capacity for excess. One friend says that his reversal from a pro-war to an unequivocal antiwar position is completely in character. "That's the kind of guy Dan is. He's sensitive and passionate, as well as being immensely intelligent. When he was a hawk, he wanted to be up along the DMZ fighting. When he became a dove, he became an active dove...