Word: viets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Englishmen who fought at Ypres and the Somme carried the Oxford Book of English Verse in their haversacks; such literary brigades in the trenches would find their minds chiming with a line of Keats, or William Dunbar's Timor Mortis Conturbat Me. The Americans in Viet Nam usually packed more kinetic cultural effects. Images given them over the years by movies and television would sometimes unreel in their brains as they moved toward a tree line or a Vietnamese village, and in bizarre synaptic flips between reality and pictures, they would see themselves for an instant as, say, Audie...
Much of the American grief in Viet Nam was played out in the national imagination by way of movies and television. If the grunts on search-and-destroy in the Central Highlands sometimes kept themselves going with a jolt of John Wayne from The Sands of two Jima, the people at home took their war each night live in their living rooms, mainlined by television directly into the bloodstream. Viet Nam was so intimately recorded that it became almost unendurably real-yet also impossibly remote, 9,000 miles away, a dark hallucination. And along with the war on the tube...
...passage of time, there appeared to be a willful repression of the nation's longest war and its only military defeat. The forgetfulness amounted almost to national amnesia. Two or three years ago, literary agents would tell their writers: "I can sell anything you do, but not about Viet Nam." Except for a foolishly frisky little combat comedy called The Boys in Company C, Hollywood would not touch the war-unless you count John Wayne's 1968 Green Berets, which might as well have been produced by William Westmoreland. As Director Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde...
...divestiture movement is developing into the Viet Nam issue of the late 1970s," says exiled black South African Dennis Brutus, professor of English at Northwestern, and a leader of the campaign to get universities to ditch stock of companies doing business in South Africa. The universities of Massachusetts and Wisconsin, among others, have responded to student demands that such stock be sold to protest South Africa's apartheid policies, while debate over the issue has caused demonstrations at Princeton, Stanford and Columbia. But in an open letter to students last week, Harvard President Derek Bok presented his university...
...rekindling old feelings, but she cannot resist deserting him, too. Next she looks up the parody stud (John Belushi) who sexually humiliated her in high school, and finds a way of getting even. At her final destination she finds not an old flame (he has been killed in Viet Nam) but his almost psychotic younger brother (Keith Carradine), who has taken the blame for his brother's death on himself. Diane lures him into a sexual relationship that is enough to break his tenuous hold on sanity. It also seems to purge the last of her anguish...