Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play would be a smash hit if the war in Vietnam was still being fought and if Harvard students were still agonizing over decisions about whether to fight or flee to Canada as conscientious objectors. For Thoreau is jailed because he objects to a white supremacist war being carried out by a fanatic president hell-bent on conquering an innocent people for its own glorification-a war Ulysses S. Grnt called the most wicked in history, a war with striking similarities to Vietnam...
...says that they have remained active in all spheres of political action, and adds, "We have been consistently anti-fascist to this day." As an organization or as individuals, Nelson says the veterans strenuously opposed fascism during World Ear II, "were represented at every demonstration in Washington" against the Vietnam War, and today oppose the Pinochet regime in Chile. Most veterans vote for liberal democrats. Nelson believes, and he says about the 1976 Presidential election, "What the hell could you do, support Ford...
...fatalism. But this magazine starting with a litany of all the terrible things wrong with the world quickly moves on to ice-breaking tidbits like the sayings of a Japanese zen master or a Bucky-Fuller-talking -blues-in-gobbledlygook or the parallels between our war on cancer and Vietnam, "our nation's last great effort in futility...
Many of the students cite reasons for the decline in activism other than the standard sociological "tight job market--pre-professional preoccupation--gotta get good grades" synthesis. Some of them reject the absence of an overwhelming issue like Vietnam. The issues are still there, only the interest is not, they suggest...
...member of the presidential delegation sent to Vietnam to search for American soldiers missing in action, Mansfield said the United States should accept the reality of Vietnam's existence by normalizing diplomatic relations with that country...