Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston Herald-Traveler said Sunday Van Vort is "one of a new breed of college graduates who prefer to do nothing at all with their education...
...Vort says he has been accepted by Case-Wastern Reserve Medical School, and would like to become a psychiatrist. He'd also like to sue the Herald-although he hasn't seen a lawyer...
...Vort didn't like what the Herald said about him, but the reporter who wrote the story says he admires what Van Vort is doing. It's a confusing controversy...
Last Sunday, the Herald published an article by James K. Glassman '69, describing Van Vort's way of life and saying that he was typical of a new breed of "copouts"-students and recent graduates who "have adopted a deeply cynical attitude about society. mainly because they are members of the generation that has lived with Vietnam, the assassination ofthree of their greatest heroes, and the rise of impersonal bureaucracies...
Glassman-who writes regularly for the Herald-quoted Van Vort as having told him, "I want to continue living in the same kind of spirit as in college-avoiding responsibilities, not fitting into routines." Glassman also reported that Van Vort had said. "I don't want to work. I don't like...