Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Olimpieri's arrival at Andover was engineered with the aid of the Committee of Religious Concern for Peace (the New England branch of the National Committee of Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam) and New England Resistance, whom Olimpieri had contacted before leaving his post...
...Andover chapel. Students have already pledged to support Paul Olimpieri with passive civil disobedience, should federal marshals come to remove him, and for a faculty that last fall supported divinity school students resisting the draft, it would tortuous to cast out a marine deserting in moral disgust at the Vietnam War or to condemn students trying to help...
...February of this year Professor Brinton was invited to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as one of five "experts in revolution." There he gave the Committee a "lesson on revolution" with particular emphasis on Vietnam...
...Vietnam War does go on, it is immoral and murderous, and the Beatles have never spoken up about it. Sometimes institutions are repressive and rooted themselves in violence and indecency (yet the Beatles sneer, 'You say its-the institution/Well you know you better free your mind instead'). Racism is as much a problem in England as it in the United States, but the Beatles meekly accepted the grotesque MBE that was dangled before them by the peculiarly callous and avaricious British Environment...
President Pusey last winter told students angry with Harvard's silence on the Vietnam War, that the University collectively takes political stands only when threatened. 1968-69 may be the year when even by that cautious standard, Harvard can no longer afford political neutrality...