Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Everything We Had employ the techniques of oral history to find the answer. Mark Baker and Al Santoli have skillfully edited and orchestrated their interviews. Nam stretches the form. A crisp, uniform tone suggests that many of the anecdotes may be composites from various sources. None of those interviewed is identified, though a glossary reacquaints us with the language of the war: busting caps for firing a weapon, cherry for inexperience, hooch for shelter, No. 10 for the worst, klick for kilometer, slick for helicopter, Spooky for gunship. Santoli's approach is more traditionally documentary, though both books reveal...
...contends that the all-volunteer force is without serious flaws. It needs more non-commissioned careerists and mechanics, white or Black. Ideally, it would have more minority officers and fewer minority kitchen workers who have been forced into uniform because their lack of skills prevents them from finding a job elsewhere. A draft, however, would neither induce technicians to stay nor improve the lot of minorities in harsh economic conditions...
Sacks has received uniform praise for his openness to students. He enjoys talking to students and has an open-door policy for students and has an open-door policy for people with problems. In 1969, in the midst of a University-wide protest. Sacks stayed up through the night to talk to students who had occupied the Law School's library...
...truth as best it can, as fast as it can - and to tell it. A sense of national unity, in sadness and anxiety. A sense of outrage at violence. If the U.S. really were as fundamentally violent as it is made out, there would never be such uniform despair and disgust when violence occurred...
...wearing a huge green cowboy hat made out of polystyrene and a baseball uniform with the message "SUPPORT THE JIMMY FUND" weaves through the crowd, swinging an inflated plastic bat and shaking hands...