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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Folklore and Mythology, it has found a profitable academic venture for those students who have spent their Harvard careers regaling dining hall companions and Blue Parrot dates with tales out of "Harvard Folklore and Mythology." All the great stories are apocryphal, with many variations springing off a few main themes. The Harvard "paper story" is an important subset...
...Their main criticism of the course is that "serious problems of poverty and wealth inequality have been skimmed over as has been the government's role in contributing to these problems," according to Thomas Dublin '67-4, one of the organizers of the seminar. "There is no consideration that the results of economic policy favor big businesses in war-related industries," he said...
...local governments. As a result, the Baltic Fleet suddenly mutinied in 1921. Lenin crushed the revolt, but he never forgave the navy. He demoted it to the inglorious position of "naval forces of the Red Army" and decreed a new strategy that called for only a defensive fleet whose main weaponry would be submarines...
...their leaders to speak out in warning. >In Laos, the major staging area for Communist forces moving into South Viet Nam, at least 2,500 North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao troops have surrounded the southern provincial capital, Saravane. The city is important because it sits astride Route 23, a main feeder to the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and commands the whole southern region. Last week an outnumbered royalist force of 1,000 managed to turn back attacks on two outposts defending it, but lost a third. "Some say the fighting in Laos is a forgotten war," said Brigadier General Oudone...
...rally before the Pentagon march began. Drunk he was, and he admits it. But the crisp account of Mailer's role in the events that followed is bathed in the harsh, dry light of hangover. Though he writes in the third person, no modesty is involved: his main character is Norman Mailer. He evokes the dilem ma imposed by the Viet Nam war on many American liberals: self-exiled from Lyndon Johnson's Democratic Party, they are forced to array their antiwar consciences in the same ranks as Communists, New Leftists and giddy, neo-anarchic hippies...