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...half-hour series finale, was predicated on an event so traumatic as to drive Hawkeye into a mental hospital. In this sense, “M*A*S*H” was radically ahead of its time—“Good Morning Vietnam?? was arguably the first Vietnam comedy overtly about Vietnam, and for that release, Touchstone bided its time until...
...From its exterior, the slaughterhouse I visited looked very unlike the chaotic street market in Vietnam??its whitewashed walls satisfy our desire to ignore how meat is made. But inside the process was just as menacing: Huge chutes drove a pig every three seconds toward her death...
...Greek characters and their present-day couterparts. “[McLaughlin] did an amazing job of fitting in so much of [our research] and weaving it into the myth,” Ampuero says. “Dr. Jonathan Shay, of Tufts University, wrote ‘Achilles in Vietnam?? and ‘Odysseus in America’ on war and theater created by veterans for veterans. He proposed this theory that Greek theatre—because it was written by generals and veterans of war and…performed by soldiers and soldiers in training...
...athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.” That Buckley was dead wrong on pretty much every major historical issue of his time—McCarthyism, civil rights, Vietnam??seems to matter little to his swooning acolytes. The National Review has floundered some in recent years, but what holds it together is an almost cultish devotion to the personality of its founding father—whether or not this was Buckley’s intention...
...high-water mark for undergraduate activism is, by most accounts, the University Hall takeover of 1969, in which students—frustrated by the University’s failure to distance itself from the United States military effort in Vietnam??poured into the office space of key FAS administrators...