Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bond, who first received national recognition in the '60s for both his opposition to the Vietnam War and his participation in the civil rights movement, pointed out that 91 per cent of the blacks who voted in last fall's election supported President Jimmy Carter. He urged Carter, whose nomination Bond opposed in the primaries, to live up to the expectations of his black constituents and to return their loyalty...
...range of issues Shahak has tackled, through action or in print, include the confiscation of land and destruction of homes belonging to Palestinians, the alleged mistreatment of prisoners by the state, and press censorship against Palestinian poets and journalists--"during the Vietnam war, Vietnam could not be mentioned by Palestinian poets in occupied territories," he says. Shahak also protests what he describes as discrimination against a group of people whose official name he translates as "Jews who are not Jews"--that is, individuals who suddenly discover from official dictates that their mother or grandmother was not Jewish, causing them...
Paxton shows his latent romanticism in a protest song of a different genre. His voice quivers with emotion on "Born on the Fourth of July," when he recounts the story of a patriotic marine who realizes the evil of Vietnam after he returns from the war paralyzed. Writing with such intensity, Paxton manages to revive a half-forgotten issue. While Paxton's tenor is not overwhelming, he injects enormous feeling in this rendition...
Julian Bond certainly fits into this category. Elected in 1965 to the Georgia House of Representatives, Bond was initially booted from his seat by legislators who disliked his statements in opposition to the Vietnam war. He won two special elections held to fill his seat, but each time the legislature refused to let him enter. Until 1967, that is, when the United States Supreme Court ruled that the state legislature acted improperly in barring...
...business pile just in time to get the call to Washington and Camelot from the greatest gamesman of the all--President John F. Kennedy '40--and who stayed on to overanalyze the country into its most agonizing decade. Sound business tactics and calculated risks brought America into Vietnam and Cambodia, riots and recessions, and then into the Age of Nixon. Perhaps that last agony was America's reaction against gamesmanship, a return to the happy days of Commie-hunting and jungle-fighting. But the game was not over, even after the purge. And it is still going...