Word: viets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American audience of the '50s and early '60s. Compound that with the way in which the black press is generally received by white America, and you get a clear picture of why nobody listened to Worthy in 1954 when he predicted America's tragic involvement in the Viet...
...French troops would fight in Zaire, but emphasized that France had not wanted its African friends "to feel abandoned when their security is threatened." Answering protests that his support for Mobutu was reckless, Giscard declared that it was absurd to speculate that his action could lead to "another French Viet...
Pristine Chants. Lily is a brilliant flop. A professor at Harvard and a 1967 Pulitzer Prize winner, Kirchner concedes the opera's transparent comment on American intervention abroad. In fact, he once considered (and wisely reconsidered) calling it Why We Were in Viet Nam. What he has produced, however, is a 91-minute, one-act work in which Henderson simply fails to come alive as an operatic hero. Possibly he is too rambling, too widely split a character to be captured in the broad terms that opera thrives on. Certainly Kirchner, who conducted the première, has come...
...wars are alike in that men, women and children are wounded, maimed or killed. But a lost war hurts the most because it pinpoints the aching futility of dying to no apparent purpose. The mood of the present hour is to forget about Viet Nam. Amnesia is the U.S. antidote for history...
...first play David Berry, who served in Viet Nam, deliberately chooses not to forget. Berry surmounts the tiresome truism that war is hell. He seems to say that a nation that sent off its young men to the killing ground of Southeast Asia with complacent arrogance is itself hellish, not least in shirking its collective moral responsibility...