Word: risings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...given no indication of any shift away from the Johnson Administration's insistence on dictating South Vietnam's future, and the American negotiators in Paris continue to behave as though there were any legitimate claims in Vietnam about which to negotiate. Meanwhile U.S. and Vietnamese casualties continue to rise. Secretary Laird makes bland predictions about keeping half a million men in Vietnam for "at least" two years, and there are ominous rumors of a resumption of the air war against North Vietnam...
...American radical tradition has, according to Lasch, taken two general forms. The first was the tendency to substitute foreign revolutionary models for programs based on conditions in America. Discussing the decline of the Socialists after the First World War, Lasch argues that their downfall can be traced to the rise of Bolshevism within the movement. The Russian Revolution provided many American socialists with a new revolutionary model, a model which seemed to transcend orthodox Marxist categories. In their excitement, the American Bolsheviks tended to forget the total dissimilarities between conditions in Russia and America, and began to propagandize...
...surface issue of who actually won the Big Three title was finally settled, but there are a number of other questions which the whole affair gave rise to--questions which ultimately are much more important for the Ivy League's decision-making process on rules violation...
...taken theirs off here). One out of four is tipsy, one out of ten is drunk. Every other one is smoking, and so disgustingly, with his butt stuck to his lower lip! So that long before the incense-in place of the incense-gray pillars of cigarette smoke rise from the church courtyard, with its electric lights, toward the Easter sky with its brown, motionless clouds...
Personal Revolution. The last act becomes participatory theater as actors and audience debate the significance of the play. Says one speaker from the stage: "Fellow workers, you must rise and fight the bosses. You are like the Communist dragon-seduced by the comfort that Capitalism offers you as a bribe to keep quiet. But refrigerators and TV sets won't solve your problems-only the revolution can give you the strength and human dignity denied the working class so long." In the village of Vignola, the audience was so aroused by this argument that a group called for flags...