Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally, I must confess a sentimental attachment to ROTC. It saved me from the draft in '69, kept me from going to Vietnam as an infantryman, and may conceivably have saved my life. Had I not been able to get into ROTC in graduate school, I would have been, of necessity, a more direct and odious agent of US imperialism than I became. It's convenient that seniors in '76 don't face that choice, but I hope you'll forgive a little Crimson-like subjectivity in my criticism. Richard K. Betts Lecturer in Government
...express reservations about the Vietnam...
...picture of a journal which embodies a whole style of life, against a newer impulse--which Schell is said to represent--toward the this-is-what-decent-and-thinking-people-must-believe politics which appeared with such frequency at the beginning of Talk of the Town in the late-Vietnam and Watergate years...
...young Massachusetts Bay Colony, in the interest, he believes, of public welfare. To Adam (1902), it means maintaining the standards of Society and the elitism of the Patroon Club by throwing a judicious blackball. Later, John (1967) serves as an advocate for the status quo, hawkishly backing the Vietnam...
...historic compromise. In the face of militant American disapproval and sanctions, menanced by CIA infiltration and influence, Italians understandably fear that their country may become another Chile. Their fears are well supported by the American press, judging from a recent Newsweek cover. America already considers Italy another Vietnam...