Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This intellectual ferment clearly reaches far beyond Vietnam. The practical problem of the war has triggered discussions of a more philosophical bent...
...some of the more perceptive remember that one of the principal architects of our Vietnam policy was a former dean of the faculty at Harvard, McGeorge Bundy. These men are expressing their feelings in books like The Dissenting Academy, a collection of articles edited by Theodore Roszak...
...Roszak and others, the Vietnam war has uncovered long-standing failings of the academic community...
Roszak, chairman of the History of Western Culture program at California State College, said that "until the recent rash of campus protest related to the Vietnam war, nothing has so characterized the American academic as a condition of entrenched social irrelevance, so highly developed that it would be comic if it were not sufficiently serious in its implications to stand condemned as an act of criminal delinquency...
Levinson contends that political science lacks relevance to contemporary issues. "Just pick up any recent issue of the American Political Science Review. You'll be lucky to find even one article on Vietnam or civil rights. Who wants to read about the cultural patterns of some village in northern India?" Levinson said in a CRIMSON interview...