Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Faced with a military conscription notice for June 15, however, Brooks decided he did not feel opposed enough to Vietnam to dodge the summons. He enlisted in Officer Candidate School...
...Vietnam was a creature of Johnson's ego in a lot of people's views," Popkin says...
...Vietnam] War was just an overwhelming thing which dominated the feelings of my class," he says...
...best of times or, depending on your political and philosophical outlook, one of the foulest and most depraved. Rebellion seemed to be leaping from city to city, continent to continent, by some fiery process of contagion. Vietnam unleashed the Tet offensive; France shook with the revolutionary "events of May"; radical students filled the streets of Mexico City, Berlin, Tokyo, Beijing, Prague. In the U.S., Chicago swirled into near anarchy as cops battled antiwar demonstrators gathered at the Democratic Convention. And everywhere from Amsterdam to Haight-Ashbury, a generation was getting high, making love, acting...
Thus both sides of the "culture wars" of the '80s and '90s took form in the pivotal year of '68. The key issues are different now -- abortion and gay rights, for example, as opposed to Vietnam and racism -- but the underlying themes still echo the clashes of '68: Diversity vs. conformity, tradition vs. iconoclasm, self-expression vs. deference to norms. "Question authority," in other words, vs. "Father knows best...