Word: victnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first album, here are less outrageous and much less funny, usually degenerating into clumsy tastelessness or aimless wisecracking. His glorification of Jewish machismo, "They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore," is embarrassingly sophomoric. "Somethin's Wrong With the Beaver," a eulogy to Jerry Mathers--supposedly killed in Victnam, actually alive and working as a bank teller in California--wavers between pathos and satire, finally achieving neither. Most of the other songs are simply incoherent or pointless. Where Sold American was absurdly satirical or emotionally poignant this album is strained, inane, and often vulgar...
...order to gauge the full meaning of "repression," it may be necessary to examine, not the particular repression of the conspiracy defendants, but rather the political and social climate which surrounded their trial. It was the war in Victnam, for example, and the utter inflexibility of the "electoral" system which upholds the war, which engendered the original protest and made it successful; the repressive effect which the war has had on society may be viewed in rising taxes for "defense" spending, an inflationary economy which has actually lowered purchasing power and spread poverty in America during the past five years...