Word: war
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MOTHER COURAGE, Bertolt Brecht's treatise portraying common man as war's much-buffeted victim, will be modernized for its presentation in the bucolic setting of Castleton College, Castleton, Vt. (July 15-26). George Tabori directs a cast that includes Wife Viveca Lindfors as Mother, Sam Schacht, Rudy Bond, Julie Garfield and Pat Suzuki as the whore, Yvette...
...YEAR OF THE YOUNG REBELS, by Stephen Spender. Mingling on the barricades with American and European student radicals, the Old Left poet and veteran of Spanish Civil War politics reports humanely on New Left ideals and spirit...
...your cover article, "Unlike the blacks, who were brought to the U.S. involuntarily, the Chicanos have flocked to the U.S. . ." It seems to me you are rather ignoring a shameful episode in Mexican-American relations-namely, the Mexican War...
...war and the resulting treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo not only deprived Mexico of over 40% of its land but also made many thousands of Mexicans involuntarily Americans overnight. In many areas of the Southwest, the Mexican American may date his family's residency over a century, if not longer...
...Your note pertaining to Russia and the American Civil War states, "The Russians actually dispatched warships to the U.S. to demonstrate their support" [July 4]. This was not the case. The Russian fleet had been ordered to sea as a precaution against easy destruction in the Baltic Sea in case of war. Russian treatment of the Polish people in rebellion had led to representations by the French and British governments. This caused concern in Russia that war might result. Of course, when the fleets arrived in New York and San Francisco, the Russians were glad to be hailed as supporters...