Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before it was--and despite all the tear-gas-scented disruptions that signaled the trauma of transition--some of us got an education. If we were lucky, we had teachers--Monroe Engel, Justin Kaplan, Gail Porter and Peter Stansky in my case--who shaped our sensibilities forever. But the Vietnam war also exposed the fallibility of America's institutions, and to witness close-up the crack-up of Harvard, the alma mater of the American establishment that created the quagmire, was a harrowing education in itself...
...think it mattered a great deal," says Charles E. Gilbert III '71, who is now a lawyer in Hampden, Maine, who lived in Eliot before moving off campus. "In the context of that time, with all that was going on in the Vietnam War and other issues, I don't recall this as the burning issue of the day for the average student...
...right politics, opposing Vietnam and generally seen as liberal-but-not-too-liberal. He had the right scholarly credentials, including many book titles to his credit. Most of all, he managed to work well with a conservative, faculty and a reform-minded student body, while making sure the Law School became academically and financially strong again...
Some more radical students criticized Bok for waffling on decisions, but even they respected his stance against the Vietnam...
...economic sabotage and toppling democratically-elected governments, is frequently presented in a much different light. Professors or instructors who speak frankly about such incidents are scarce--most will parrot government propaganda about America's valiant struggle to promote democracy and free markets overseas. For instance, in discussions about the Vietnam War, students are asked to view the situation from the perspective of American leaders--many of them Harvard men--and to see how these men had almost no choice but to escalate the conflict. More disturbing facets of the Vietnam War, such as the widespread murder of civilians in South...