Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hollywood, reaping an astounding 30% share of all U.S. box-office revenues, vs. 4% just four years ago. For most of the first quarter, three of the country's top five movies were Disney's: Three Men and a Baby, which has grossed $160 million so far, Good Morning, Vietnam ($110 million) and Shoot to Kill ($30 million). On TV, Disney has a hit sitcom, The Golden Girls; two popular new cartoon shows, The Adventures of the Gummi Bears and DuckTales; the third-ranked game show, Win, Lose or Draw; and a reborn flagship program, The Disney Sunday Movie...
Funny, but I don't see the same things that John Yoo sees. Instead of the simplistic view that sees the civil rights movement and the Vietnam protests as having achieved permanent structural change for the better, I see the sixties in conjunction with a Reagan administration which wants to veto further civil rights legislation and which appears all too willing to repeat the stupidities of the past. I see a struggle which takes place over decade, and in which the gains of the sometimes violent and enthusiastic protests of the past are easily lost, if they are not fought...
...were initially formed in response to the social and political concerns that emerged during the Vietnam War," says Brad Connors, a member of the Association's Executive Board. "Male students needed passing grades from their T.A.'s to maintain a grade point average high enough to defer the draft. The T.A.'s had to take action around these issues, and the only power vehicle strong enough was unionism," Connors says...
...state troopers armed with nightsticks stormed the building violently evicted the students and injured several. Fortunately, no one was killed. The same cannot be said of the infamous Kent State incident in May of 1970, where four students were shot dead by National Guardsmen while protesting the war in Vietnam...
WOULD you fight for your country? Right or wrong? Vietnam diluted our absolute allegiance to our country and made these questions harder to answer. For American Jews, mired in the United States' crisis of confidence, the question of support for Israel is even more difficult. Once we refuse to follow "America right or wrong," how can we support Israel when it seems to be in the wrong...