Word: staked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps the novel is not right for Vietnam. Gloria Emerson certainly comes as close as anyone to creating the definitive Vietnam work with her passionate profiles of individuals in Winners and Losers. Maybe the right medium is film; but Apocalypse Now veered away from Vietnam too soon to stake a claim, and The Deer Hunter, in its attempt to explain why all wars exist, failed altogether. Or perhaps it's television--a televised benediction for the televised war. But television in America wouldn't ever be willing to risk the necessary time and talent for such a project...
...embellish' quotes from an individual to make them 'sound better' or to fit the point of the story." Some editors concede that the press generally overuses unidentified sources. Cooke has made them more aware that a paper's reputation can be just as much at stake as the reporter's. Unnamed sources are often justifiably used to get behind the sham of public statements but can become a lazy reporter's invention to provide a false aura of insider's knowledge...
...Americans are a funny bunch. Faced with the most appalling crime statistics, how can you even argue about the importance of banning handguns? Constitutional rights, my foot! Your whole way of life is at stake, and you rave about rights that take you back to the jungle...
Clearly, if military service were required by law, a smaller proportion of Blacks would serve. But is this the crucial goal in peace time? Racial representation becomes an important issue only when lives are at stake, when minorities and the poor do more than their fair share of the fighting. And in any case, Hollings' proposal will not fulfill the important goal of increasing the numbers of minority officers. America's racially imbalanced volunteer army is a reflection of the fundamental economic injustice in our society; that injustice, above all, should be rectified. But Hollings' proposal will neither help change...
...distressed by one section of their argument. In arguing against the fact that a draft would more equitably balance the nation's military, they insist that "racial representation becomes an important issue only when lives are at stake, when minorities and the poor do more than their share of the fighting...