Word: vietnam
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...time when the world outside the gates of Harvard Yard was reacting to the Vietnam War, race relations and radical movements, the students of the class of 1973 followed suit...
...class of 1973 had its moments of activism, from strikes in Boston, to protests on campus, to marches on Washington. Yet the classes before them were more active, and as the Vietnam War drew to a close, activism at Harvard entered its twilight...
...conflicts he has seen, Lewis remains most vehement about Vietnam. He says he is appalled by "the complete wrongness of what we did, the savagery and pointlessness of the American war effort...
...able to focus the nations' attention on injustice--whether it involved the war in Vietnam or hungry children living in Mississippi," says Edward Kennedy. "He found such injustice unacceptable and inspired people to take action and do something about...
Ultimately, Johnson declined the offer--and Gill, who faced "the sharpest of criticisms" from some Faculty members for extending an invitation to the commander-in-chief during the Vietnam War, concedes that the president's arrival "would have caused a riot...