Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...touted in 1972 is now firmly entrenched. Most of the overt resistance to the United States's war-making machine is gone, or at least in hiding. The people-oriented movements it seems to have spawned--urging equal rights for women, blacks, the poor--are in hibernation, if not retreat...
...still the retreat continues. Last week. President Ford asked Congress for an additional half-billion dollars to prop up the Thieu and Lon Nol regimes in Vietnam and Cambodia; more money to visit more death from the skies upon innocent people. The conductor has changed, the orchestra is different, but the composer, Henry A. Kissinger '50, and the symphony of murder and repression are the same. Yet we sit quietly listening to the strains of death, and our voices are still...
...been so clear in such powerful places as it was during the Nixon regime; never had so many of the government's facilities been employed to strangle opposition, Never had corruption and evil been so clear, and yet so seemingly invincible; never had justice been in so broad a retreat. Faith is a fragile commodity; for many of us, I think, what little faith we had in the system shattered as, despite his crimes. Nixon increased his power...
...State Department expert put it, "SALT has survived the Cambodian invasion, the mining of Haiphong and the Middle East war." In spite of this week's serious setback, the Soviet cancellation of the trade agreement may well prove to be a tactical but not a strategic retreat from detente...
...through with leftist politics, because the ideas of the left are "not particularly relevant to what's going on today" and are "basically destructive to women." Though she is a minor figure in the rise and fall of the New Left, her career is a paradigm of the retreat from politics to more personal concerns. Young white activists of the '60s were chiefly concerned about injustices done to others. For Alpert, selflessness must go. As a radical feminist of the '70s, she seeks "an identity not with other people's oppression, but with my own, first...