Word: vietnames
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Similarly, Clarke strove to make his actors feel what it is like to be a killing machine. Although most of the troupe members were five or six at the height of the Vietnam war, Clarke has a clearer memory of the war because both his brothers fought...
...other hand, are traditions, remnants of an activist era still remembered fondly. The University obviously feels anxious to do away with such nettlesome relics. But in picking a fight with Harvard's women, instead of being satisfied with the status quo, it may be getting into its own Vietnam--a needless fight from which it cannot emerge victorious, only tired and tarnished...
...successful drive for the 1963 partial Test Ban Treaty to the concern aroused in October 1962. But the Caribbean confrontation did not itself produce significant new critiques of American government and foreign policy among students and professors. "Students were very little activated politically," says Adam Ulam. "The mood of Vietnam had not yet emerged, and there was nothing like the interest in political issues that came to exist...
Recalling the "turbulent" years of Vietnam protests in the late 1960s, Nagy says he "was sympathetic of what my students were going through." But he says he perceives a definite shift in both student and faculty attitudes since that time. Referring to his colleagues, he says. "In those days, I think people felt if they signed petitions or manifestos, they were really accomplishing something. I think few of us would feel that way now, although some professors still do these things." As for students, Nagy says the emphasis on careerism has greatly lessened student activism...
Special interest partisians These are flakes who are up. They re pound that they read the papers and know every battle of the Vietnam War but are enough he admit their lust for the trend setter bunne. No, they must still atone for their occasional outbrusts of sarcasm or thier lingering interests in science fiction. Predominantly male (but includeng a few young women who write bad blank verse and read Virginia Woolf) the special interest partisans the hope and promise of their generation...