Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nation, students at major universities have angrily occupied administration buildings and pounded on chancellors' office doors, demanding that their institutions accept their rightful responsibility and take a role in ending the United States' involvement with the Third World. Is this a scene from 1969 during the opposition to the Vietnam...
...lawmakers with some dignity and prevent what Utah's Orrin Hatch described as "a rush to the champagne bottles at the White House." The impulse was particularly intense among Hatch's fellow Republicans, for whom impeachment has become about as popular and successful an adventure as the war in Vietnam. "We need a way out of this that doesn't look as if we've got our tails between our legs," said a Republican leadership aide...
...Rosenberg, Hannah Arendt and others), Podhoretz played a noisy, precocious younger brother, an irritant who would not stay put ideologically. In recoil against the Eisenhower inertia, Podhoretz had steered to the radical left by the early '60s. But then, appalled at the anti-Americanism and cultural wreckage of the Vietnam era, he headed hard right. In 1960 he became editor in chief of the leftist journal Commentary; after his conversion he repositioned it as a leading organ of neoconservatism...
...Blues without the booze," says co-founder Betsy Siggins Schmidt. Over the years though, student nightlife has fragmented as venues multiplied, and the Club's Americana format has become less immediate than it was when folk musicians were creating a vocal canon of protest in the days of Vietnam and the civil rights movement...
...subjects "at home," the essence of separation in her work lies in the fact that these children, grandmothers, brothers and fathers are all thousands of miles from their homeland. Three siblings sit in front of stylized American wallpaper, but above their heads are paintings and family portraits in Vietnam. One wife sits with her husband on their couch digging her bare toes into the carpet. The immediacy of Cho's subjects is aided by quotations explaining the changes of emigration...