Word: war
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Through flashbacks to the fire-bombing of Dresden in World War II, this agonizing, outrageous, funny and profoundly rueful fable tries to say something about the nature of human cruelty and self-protective indifference...
...most expert Gaullologists in the business is Curtis Prendergast, now TIME'S London bureau chief, who contributed to this week's cover. During a nine-year term in Paris, Prendergast accompanied the general on ten tours of France's provinces and two dramatic descents on war-torn Algeria, as well as on ceremonial visits to Senegal, Mauritania, Greece, Mexico, the West Indies and Cambodia...
Despite the agitation by S.D.S. and such issues as the Viet Nam war, campus ROTC and secret military research, all of which arouse white students, a large proportion of campus disorders now involve black students, or at least black causes. Some college administrators have grave doubts about the validity of the courses and policies demanded by black students, but many have rushed to introduce Afro-American studies and degrees and set up separate black dormitories and student centers in the hope of avoiding unnecessary confrontations...
...people say 90 per cent of the steam will go out of it when the war is over. Do you think that...
WINSHIP: Dr. Pusey, what do you see as the future of the student protest? How much of it will dissipate when the war closes...