Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most saline of American writers finds himself unable to escape the tenebrous undertow of Jewish mysticism. "My inclination is to resist the imagination when it operates in this way," he writes. "Yet I, too, feel that the light of Jerusalem has purifying pow ers and filters the blood and the thoughts. I don't forbid myself the reflection that light may be the outer garment...
...that everyone knows about Jimmy Carter's lustful thoughts, it is apparently hard for a female journalist to resist asking for more details. As Barbara Howar put it after interviewing the Democratic candidate, "I [told] him that if he is pressed to be more specific about his list of the many women he has lusted after in his heart, I would certainly appreciate being mentioned." Not one to be overlooked, Harvard Professor Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, popped the same question while interviewing Carter in August for the Ladies' Home Journal...
Unlike the men who chose to resist the fighting, Kovic can never be graced with amnesty. His exile is permanent; it is the physical isolation of his wheelchair. America's image was sullied in Vietnam; Kovic's ruined body is the crying proof of this. He had believed that there was honor in serving one's country, and there was. But the war taught him it was in vain. He recalls in the third person...
...TROOPS who fought in Vietnam were like Ron Kovic, young, working class men who were either unable to obtain an exemption or, more likely, thought it an honorable or decent thing to fight willingly. The moral choice that more educated and wealthy individuals faced was whether or not to resist induction. For the most part, they did not go. Thus those who would be most prone to write of their war experiences never saw Vietnam: theirs is a literature of protest. A great silence lies over the fighting man's tour in Vietnam. It is not that we must write...
Downstairs, in the lounge of Faunce House, Brown's student union, the talk among the several gathered members of the Vise group is less than conciliatory. "We're going to resist them every inch of the way," says Mike Curtin, one of the arrested students, who has met Bechtel earlier this morning. "They've committed themselves to a quasi-legal setup; now we're going to turn it all loose...