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Jonathan Z. Larsen '61, who is now a freelancewriter, says he approached the New Frontier withrenewed patriotism. "When Kennedy sounded thebugle, I was more than ready to follow." But theturmoil of the late '60s taught Larsen, who coveredthe tumultous 1968 Democratic convention inChicago for Time magazine, that the solution forchange "was to openly challenge the system." Asbureau chief for Time magazine in Saigon in theearly 1970s, Larsen grew disillusioned with "theanarchy" he saw in almost half of the AmericanGI's on drugs. "Kennedy would have beenpessimistic himself...
Some members of the class say that underlyingtheir lack of activism against the system was adissent, voiced in more subtle ways. In late nightbull sessions in cafes along Mt. Auburn Streetthey articulated their dissatisfaction with theirparents' value systems and found a spokesman inthe music of Bob Dylan, says Larsen...
...were cynical among ourselves. We reactedagainst the Norman Rockwell self-satisfied visionof America," says Larsen. "We thought there had tobe more to life than that...
...Larsen and Tran...
...Polaroids hastily snapped before the mind forgets what it has witnessed: children rioting over candy at a Saigon orphanage; a bar girl singing to a G.I. ("You give me baby./ I give you V.D."). But as the authors pass out their pictures, they also provide moving autobiographies. Wendy Wilder Larsen reconstructs the early '70s from the American point of view; Tran Thi Nga offers a far more unusual perspective. The daughter of a Vietnamese mandarin, she twice became the second wife in polygamous marriages, first to a Chinese general, then to her sister's husband. She managed to escape...