Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movement would eventually bring about. These women are not heroines of the Lauren Bacall, Katherine Hepburn caliber. Rather, they are weak and confused. There is little doubt that Fonda is going to go back to her husband, Bruce Dern, once he pulls himself together and stops reliving his Vietnam days, pulling out bayonets in the living room and threatening to kill everyone. Yes, her little affair with Voigt, the radical Vietnam paraplegic, was a mind-opening and beautiful experience for her, but is she really going to live a with someone who's paralyzed from the waist down...
...Butterfield also earned a reputation as a social activist, who spoke out often on the Vietnam War. Kirsti Gamage, the current secretary of Social Studies, said yesterday she remembers her "delight on going to the Registrar's Office and seeing this lovely lady who had attached a poster of Chairman Mao to the wall...
Fairbank delivered a detailed synopsis of China's modern history, addressed US-China policy, and answered audience questions ranging from Vietnam, Africa and world power strategies to child rearing...
...caught. In the course of the trial, several government officials testified that the documents in question were neither sensitive nor fraught with national security matters--the crux of the government prosecutor's case. Yet Truong and Humphrey were singled out, as if to demonstrate Washington's contempt for Vietnam. While the pair clearly deserves some sentence--pilfering government documents, after all, is not very nice--the whole affair smacks of Cold Warriorism, and jibes scarily with Carter's recent gung-ho reescalation of old-style brinksmanship in foreign policy...
THERE ARE any number of reasons for the inertia that has seized America. There is, of course, the old "Nixon and Vietnam and inflation sapped the vitality of the '60s" line--but comparisons of the '70s to the '60s are hackneyed and generally odious. The '60s, if nothing else, were a dynamic, essential turning point, of which the '70s are the antithesis. Then there is the "lobotomization of America" argument, which points to television and pre-professionalism and People Magazine as the leading indicators of plasticity, stupidity and rampant escapism. Armchair (and journalistic) philosophers can rant forever, yet still achieve...