Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gonna: Platoon. Because it's the "moral choice." Because it made the cover of Time Magazine. Because everybody has decided it's the Vietnam film on account of it's so goshdarned literal. I'll take Colonel Kurtz or Russian roulette players over this war-is-hell pic any day of the week...
Twenty years ago, students outside of Leverett House blocked the car of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, who was in town for a speech. McNamara got out, debated students on the Vietnam War, and was allowed to drive...
...hecklers drowned out Weinberger several times, prompting the executive committee of the Faculty to discuss the need to protect free speech more stringently on campus. Reviving the Vietnam-era Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) was considered, but nixed because the body had faced student boycott almost continuously since its 1969 inception...
...Vietnam vet in the film: "Hackneyed...
Every generation has its crisis. In the 1940's it was World War II--the senseless brutality of Nazism and the deaths of innocent millions; in the 60s, Vietnam, a trauma from which we have yet to completely recover. Today, however, we face a more cunning, fatal foe, a silent malaise that strikes our very souls. I am talking, of course, of the crisis of post-modernism...