Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vietnam became a debacle because two American presidents refused to be the first ones to "lose" a war, hopeless and wasteful as it might have been. We had to have "Peace with honor." The need to win is ingrained in the American character...
...American university town. Eight students share a poster-lined apartment; they worry about Vietnam, joke about sex, and make fun of their professors. As one character in Michael Weller's Moonchildren puts it. "You can't get more relevant...
DYLAN REAPPEARED for a solo acoustic number, "With God On Our Side." In place of the original line, "I've learned to hate the Russians/ all through my whole life," Dylan sang, "I learned to hate Russia/ and China/ and Korea/ and Vietnam/ and South America/ and Bulgaria." Onstage, he's exactly the opposite of a Liza Minelli offering her heart up to the audience. Dylan is coy, buried under the sombrero, the guitar and the harmonica holder; he demands complete fascination from the crowd and he gets...
...sadistically abused every woman unfortunate enough to be found. When Russian soldiers reached Berlin they retaliated in kind. Brownmiller's compilation of figures and the transcripts of victims' tales are torture to read. To be forced, once again, to read accounts of the atrocities committed by American soldiers in Vietnam makes one physically...
...election of student radicals in Berkeley that provoked so much anxiety in Cambridge that year, the conditions have been quite different from those existing here. Before the Berkeley election, 10,000 new voters, mostly students, were added to the rolls. The atmosphere on campus, still charged with anti-Vietnam sentiments, was much more highly charged politically compared with the disinterested attitude that pervades Harvard...