Word: kansan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coalition of discontent. A State Department Foreign Service officer, back from long years in the Orient, was surprised to find his West Coast family dead set against the war. "Why," he wondered last week, "it's the first time my sister and I have ever deeply disagreed." A Kansan reflected the spreading disenchantment by likening the war to "running a foot race with one foot stuck in a slop bucket." Military Historian S.L.A. Marshall, a retired brigadier who agrees with most military men that the U.S. should have "either gone in there to win or cut and run years...
...husky Kansan, winner of two World War II Navy crosses, was so committed to pacification that the Marines became known as "Walt's Peace Corps." While assault units like the 1st (Airmobile) Cavalry rode their helicopters to major set-piece battles against big Communist forces in unpopulated areas, Walt's outnumbered Marines, for the most part, had to fight mile by mile, hamlet by hamlet...
Conner is a Kansan educated at the University of Nebraska. As a sculptor, he is represented at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. And as a filmmaker, he is no Puritan. His Cosmic Ray, four minutes long, is a collection of quick glimpses of photographically virgin (unairbrushed) nudes interspersed with scenes of naval engagements, Mickey Mouse, rocket planes, and the flag-raising at Iwo Jima. One girl rides a broomstick, a witch without a stitch. Some seem to be twisting with the camera. One lies supine, her hands slipping off her panties...
Sunset was never intended to play social conscience to the West. Until 1928, it was just another provincial literary magazine, plunging downhill in San Francisco. That year a migrant Kansan named Laurence W. Lane bought Sunset. An outdoorsy type himself, Lane took shrewd aim at the tide of sun worshipers flowing West and set out to make Sunset their guidebook...
...Bell flew out to Cairo to interview Nasser. To call Bell an old Middle East hand is to limit him geographically: he is an old Far East hand, an old Africa hand and an old German hand, as well as being a far-from-old and far-from-home Kansan. Back in the days when the young Egyptian army officer overthrew King Farouk's corrupt regime, Bell was the first correspondent to discover and report that the real head of the junta was not Mohammed Naguib, but an unknown colonel named Nasser. Now, seeing Nasser for the first time...