Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past week several national figures have drawn an analogy between the Supreme Court's ruling in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services and the Vietnam...
...there is absolutely no reason why Fallows should include the story of how as a college senior he sicked-out of Vietnam--an intriguing story that is hopelessly and misplaced in this book. These distractions detract from Fallows' main thesis, the uniqueness of American culture, and serve only as unnecessary interruptions in this otherwise consistent book...
Bhutto came to Harvard at the early age of 16, during a time of political and social unrest throughout America. Students were marching in protest of the bloody war in Vietnam, and the women's movement was gaining unprecedented momentum. Watergate was undermining the integrity of the presidency. Young men walked around with hair down to the peace-symbol patches on the pockets of their jeans. Sexual norms were changing--during Bhutto's sophomore year at the University, Radcliffe and Harvard began housing men and women under the same roof...
...offended by this attitude, and by the implication that an alumnus who disagrees with the University's position is disloyal. One of the most important conversations I had with my roommates was about what we would have done during the Vietnam War if we had been drafted. One said he would have left the country, but would not ever have tried to return, explaining that if he disagreed with the government, he had an obligation to renounce his citizenship. I believe this destroys the premise of American democracy...
...Harvard in 1969 must have felt like the center of the universe," Pauley said, referring to the student strike that year in which students stormed University Hall to protest University expansion into Cambridge, the presence of Reserve Officers Training Corps on campus and the Vietnam...