Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...further reason for the journey was given by Jacques Barzaghi, a Brown aide: "Jerry has some friends, Jesse Jackson and people like that, who urged him to come to Africa to see for himself and get a little insight into American blacks. You might say that it's also a vacation, except that Jerry does the same thing on vacation that he does in his Sacramento office...
...packed more kinetic cultural effects. Images given them over the years by movies and television would sometimes unreel in their brains as they moved toward a tree line or a Vietnamese village, and in bizarre synaptic flips between reality and pictures, they would see themselves for an instant as, say, Audie Murphy winning his Congressional Medal of Honor in To Hell and Back. One writer called these dislocating fan tasies "life-as-movie, war-as-war-movie, war-as-life." The men could ridicule "John Wayneing," but the effect was metaphysically spooky. And, of course, it could get you killed...
...caused by the feelings that the service they rendered was meaningless and the nation's anguish and anger over Viet Nam were transferred unfairly to them. Not long ago, a Viet Nam veteran in Minneapolis was asked if there was anything he would particularly like to say to Max Cleland when the VA chief arrived in the city for a scheduled visit. The vet brooded for a moment, then replied, half sardonically, half plaintively: "Yes. 'When are we going to get our parade...
Alternative papers have become so respectable that some of their editors are beginning to feel uneasy. Says Mike Lene-han, 30, associate editor of the Chicago Reader: "As we've become more professional, we don't stoop so low-but we don't soar as often either." At the National Association of Alternative Newsweeklies' annual convention last month at Boston's elegant Parker House, the nonstop chatter about special advertising sections and "upscale demographics" finally touched off a flurry of selfcriticism. "I get this vision of [readers as] some sort of sausage, into which...
Carter's populist tub thumping is also helping to stir up hostility to oil companies. Two days after his nationally televised energy message, with its harsh attack on the oil industry, the President defended his decontrol program before a Democratic fund-raising dinner by saying, "I will not allow this painful but necessary step to become an excuse for a massive rip-off of the American people by American oil companies. They are going to be all over Capitol Hill like a chicken on a June bug. They say they have more influence on Congress than the American people...