Word: vietniks
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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...Horatio. Well, to hell with the U.S.A., Viet Nam and the Great Society. I've had it. I am on my way to Rio de Janeiro to open a pet shop selling armadillos to Chilean soccer players. Can you think of a happier ending for a sneaker-wearing Vietnik...
...could wear himself out with all that marching. Besides, every middle-aged beard and his brother are out picketing for peace these days. So, turning from soles to souls, disillusioned Vietnik Ray Robinson Jr., 29, a Negro in blue denim, hit on the great couch-in formula for ending-the war. "We've got to show the people the only way is love," he explained. "We've got to talk and listen-everywhere." Preferably sitting...
Determined to milk as much benefit as possible from U.S. antiwar demonstrations, the Viet Cong last week freed two G.I.s especially with the Vietnik audience in mind. The men were Staff Sergeant George E. Smith, 27, and Specialist Fifth Class Claude McClure, 25, both of whom had been Communist prisoners for more than two years. The Viet Cong delivered them, well fed and in apparent good health, to a Cambodian border post only a few hours after a V.C. radio station had broadcast that the G.I.s were being released "as a response to the friendly sentiments of the American people...
...terms he defines in the Swedish-English volume he filtered out of TIME'S columns. Gullberg says: "Many of TIME'S own neologisms have come to stay in the language." We can't wait to see how a few of our recent coinages-non-book, Vietnik, op art-are minted into Swedish...
Probably the two most leftist major student bodies are those at Berkeley and the University of Chicago. Even there, the Vietnik images have been much magnified. The best on-the-scene estimate of Berkeley sentiment sees 10% of the students as Vietniks, 15% as doves, 30% as apathetics, 35% as pragmatists, 10% as hawks. Chicago, where every student feels obliged to have an opinion, splits roughly in half over the war. But when Vietniks there tried to get the student body to protest the war and back an intelligence-insulting petition accusing the U.S. of "tacit or active collaboration...