Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...true that in the 25 years since the assasination, America has seen a fair share of disaster and dissapointment. The murders of Robert Kennedy '48 and Martin Luther King Jr shocked Americans by showing the nation's violent side. Faith in government was shattered by the successive blows of Vietnam, Watergate, the sour economy of the 1970s and the Iran-Contra scandal...
...example, "Asian" is commonly used to describe all people whose roots are in Asia. Yet in this group, nationalities such as Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Vietnamese are each striving to assert their identity. For example, ancient rivalries between Korea and Japan; China and Japan and Vietnam have all carried over to embitter the relations between these groups in America. Animosity is just as strong between minority groups such as Blacks, Asians, Chinese and Hispanics...
Somewhere, the Harvard-Yale football game of 1968 fits in. It has a place in the mythology of those times, snuggles up next to student riots and assassinations, the Vietnam War, the Beatles...
...three players who were active in the anti-war movement," Gatto says. "And we had Pat Conway, a Vietnam veteran. Pat had done what he had to do and he was honored for that. Pat had a lot of respect for the guys who were trying to end the war because he had a lot of friends who were dying...
...proves a difficult year for these teenagers and their families, both of which have enough problems without the additional shadow of the Vietnam War. The movie pits the passions of the '60s love and drug culture against the conventions of small-town America, the obligatory collegiate life of demonstration against the rigid demands of a fearful but patriotic older generation. Within the families, though, Scott must deal with a stern, unfeeling father (Bruce Dern) and a disenchanted, prayerful mother (Mariette Hartley), while Ralph must deal with his own widowed mother (Joanna Cassidy...