Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campus again reflected the national mood, but, unfortunately, records of these Class Day speeches were not kept. Not until much of the campus turmoil had subdued, in 1974, are records available. At that time, Harvard orator and former Crimson president Daniel A. Swanson '74 talked of his feeling about Vietnam and Chile as he entered the University in 1971. His parting thoughts included...
When I entered this University in 1970, American bombers were carpeting Vietnam and Salvador Allende had just been elected president of Chile. During the past four years, millions starved in Africa and Bangladesh, more Vietnamese were dismembered by bombs made in Wisconsin's dairy hills, and the Chilean president who had quickened the hopes of his people was lowered into an unmarked grave in a Santiago cemetery...
...traveled to Vietnam for the first time in the spring of 1953, and found the situation to be drastically different from the New York Times accounts," recalls Worthy, who is currently director of the dual Master's Degree program in Jounalism and Afro-American Studies at Boston University. "The French were completely hopeless, and I could see America slowly getting sucked into the tragedy," he adds...
Upon returning from Vietnam Worthy wrote an article, "Our Disgrace in Indo-China," which appeared in the NAACP newspaper, The Crisis, just two months prior to the French collapse in 1954. "It was strictly a matter of writing what anybody with two eyes could see," says Worthy, "unless blinded by U.S. nationalism and blatant patriotism. America was doomed from the start...
...lead away from it. These remembrances are acted out on stage giving the audience insight into the way Thoreau's mind works and the moral dilemmas he faces. Dilemmas which have remarkable bearing on society today, or more accurately, society in the United States in the days of Vietnam. Even the most hard-boiled viewer will fidget when Thoreau looks through his imaginary bars and says, "How do you know I'm not the free one? The freest man in the world! And you, out there, are chained to what you have to do tomorrow morning...