Word: vietnamized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...march in Washington a week ago was called to protest U.S. policy--in Central America as well as South Africa. But while the march was reminiscent of protests staged against America's involvement in Vietnam, the comparison was superficial. What the press did was use easy labels from a hazy past to categorize something new and distinctive...
...converged on the nation's oldest and most staid institution of higher learning. It was, as Fran Schumer '74 illustrates in Most Likely to Succeed, to have a profound impact on the female members of the class, who found themselves grappling with the strange and tumultuous era of the Vietnam War and women's liberation, while at the same time trying to cope with traditional pressures to be slim and pretty, leaving the old boys' network to the boys...
...this is not like the Vietnam War protests. Now labor leaders, religious leaders, and student are all on the same side of the picket line--to stop the war before it begins...
Approved by the Faculty in 1970, the RRRguarantees freedom of speech, movement andassembly and was designed in response to thepolitical protests of the Vietnam...
...comparative calm on campus today, asopposed to the turbulent Vietnam war years,provided the right climate for disciplinaryreform, faculty members say. "The atmosphere oncampus has changed," says Professor of McKayProfessor of Applied Mathematics Donald G.Anderson, who chaired the committee which draftedthe legislation creating the CRR. "It was verydifficult for the student body to perceive such abody as legitimate in times of such tension [asexisted in the early 1970s...