Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This shift in the focus of magazines does not necessarily correspond to a shift in the nature of reality; it's just that the forces that shaped the 60s seemed, correctly or not, easier to deal with in terms of personalities. Vietnam was Johnson's war; racism was Wallace's and Bull Connor's fault. Individuals seemed larger-than-life enough to be responsible for some of our major catastrophes. Now, of course, those people are gone and the problems are even worse. It's obvious that it was too simple to pin them to people like Johnson or Wallace...
...disabled Vietnam War veteran, unnoticed and nearly trampled by the crowd, patiently moved through the long lift lines. One of his legs had been amputated after he was shot, he said, but he was learning how to ski because it was something he had always wanted to do. No one offered to ask the lift attendents to allow him to by-pass the 45-minute waiting line. No one offered to hold his place in line while he took the weight off his fatigued leg. As he slipped among the masses packed in the closely wrapped lines, hardly anyone even...
This piece is dedicated to Ruffin Harris and an anonymous Vietnam War veteran. Their's were the only voices of reality that trailed Gerry Ford to Colorado...
...second television and radio advertisements, Father Theodore Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame and a member of the board, tells the public: "You may recall that I spoke out for a long time against the Vietnam War. Now I'm also working with the President's Clemency Board.... It's an honest program that protects your rights and integrity, or I wouldn't be a part...
...Ford administration apparently isn't yet willing to recognize that most draft resisters and evaders of the Vietnam War era don't feel they've done anything they need clemency for--and they haven't. They offered legitimate resistance to an illegitimate...