Word: prowar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such is Cimino's fresh perspective that The Deer Hunter should be an equally disorienting experience for hawks and doves. This is the first movie about Viet Nam to free itself from all political cant. It contains no antiwar characters at all; its prowar characters are apolitical foot soldiers, not fire-breathing gook killers. The film is as far removed from Coming Home as it is from The Green Berets. Cimino has attempted to embrace all the tragic contradictions of the U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia...
...also at least two reasons why it's important not to forget him. First, because he's a reminder of other things, things it is easy to forget even when they're in the newspapers every day. The people who were more shocked at antiwar students shouting down prowar speakers than at what was happening in Indochina were forgetting what was in the newspapers every day. I think I have been more concerned with the nobility of my compassion--what the English poet Jon Stallworthy called wearing suffering like a service medal--than with ending the suffering, which might have...
...exercised his authority as "University troubleshooter" through June 1971, and experienced his most trying crises near the end of his term when he became embroiled in a controversial prowar teach-in at Sanders Theater and a building take-over on Memorial Drive...
...weeks later, Cox earned notoriety among Harvard radicals for his role in the controversy surrounding a prowar "counter teach-in." Cox floated reports before the incident that any disruptions by antiwar activists would be taken as violations of academic freedom...
...short passage. Ulam fatuously implies that the masses of people are running this country. He dismisses the possibility of Americans being "aggressively nationalistic," leaving one to wonder about prowar rallies and dead gooks. And most important, he fails to see the distinction between the ability to rule the world American-style--through corporate domination--and the "pleasant life" which most Americans are able to lead...