Word: war
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist offensive in Viet Nam unsettled some of his more hawkish supporters. Some of his critics attacked on both fronts. South Dakota's George McGovern, one of the Senate's most steadfast antiwar spokesmen, called the ABM decision, "a blunder comparable to the decision to escalate the war in Viet Nam in 1965." In a speech planned for delivery this week, McGovern aimed one of the bitterest attacks on the war heard since the 1968 election: "We hear that the war is going well; the enemy is tiring; if only we persist in the present course, there will...
...sensationalism of the copy forestalls any extended attempt by the Spectator editors to explain why the Columbia campus was one of the earliest to erupt. Why, that is, beyond despair over the war and distaste for university bullying of the community, issues, common to all campuses. The Ivy Wall makes a flying reference that greater social awareness at Columbia and an insensitive administration might have triggered the crisis...
American entered a war in the world community, and when it emerged it spirit was drained and its passion tempered. Then technology spread across the land, and in little time and with almost no effort the large majority of Americans owned cars and television. The government formally took upon itself the assurance of economic prosperity in 1946, so that by today most people think they have nothing to do but complete their lives without much bother. Most of us can sit in our metropolitan communities, pleasantly board...
Zapata and the Mexican Revolution is a vast achievement, not only because the civil war in the state of Morelos and Zapata himself are important to the Mexican Revolution, but because it is hard to imagine a historian, especially a gringo historian, writing a book which comprehends so deeply the spirit and desires of the men who made the events...
...land they had always farmed. Over and over Zapata made him men disarm, take off their crossed bullet belts, because a new winner in Mexico City promised him that now the campesinos of Mexico would have what belonged to them. As the years went by and the guerrilla war continued, Zapata did become more sophisticated. Men with grander schemes and more education became his aides and wrote grand statements for him to sign. He reached stages of exhaustion and hope when he was willing to have his subordinates compromise the simple, campesino-oriented "Plan de Ayala" which was Holy Writ...