Word: vietnam
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...often, there is a tendency to view critically one generation in light of its immediate predecessor. Baby-boomers who grew up during the turbulent years of the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam war have somewhat derisively labeled our generation "Generation X"--which, over the years, has come to mean directionless, apathetic, even lazy. Some argue that when they were in college they went out and protested--marched, made noise and, on occasion, found themselves locked up for their principled civil disobedience. All we do, on the other hand, is shop, watch television and complain...
Mickey Kaus '73 began his journalism career reporting on Vietnam War demonstrations for The Crimson. His editors knew they could count on Kaus for coverage when no other reporter had attended a protest because he organized most of them...
...most turbulent and troublesome times in the long history of Harvard University. We arrived in Cambridge in 1969, in the wake of the assassinations of my father, Robert F. Kennedy '48, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Riots tore apart American cities, and demonstrations against the war in Vietnam took on a fierce new urgency. The country was horribly divided, and Harvard offered a unique perspective on the most critical breaches...
There was little romance to it, little about which to be nostalgic today. The evils our nation faced were real and powerful. We saw injustice in the Vietnam War, in poverty, in hunger, in the inequities faced by African-Americans. Each of us responded in different ways. Some chose to be conscientious objectors. One friend spent a semester organizing mine workers. Still others joined the Students for a Democratic Society. Many more of us joined the protests around the country. We marched against the Vietnam War in Boston, New York and Washington. In the spring of 1970, our protests against...
After graduating from the private all-male Collegiate School, Kristol headed to Cambridge. Unlike most of his classmates, who violently opposed the Vietnam War and embraced the radical youth culture of the 1960s, Kristol defended America's involvement in the war and trumpeted conservative causes...