Word: wars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knowing how Mr. Hyland knows what I am "fond of saying." He came to see me once, back in the spring of 1968. We had a long talk and he tried to get me to agree, among other things, that the participation of the United States in World War II was a mistake. "But Mr. Highland," I interposed, thinking to appeal to his instinct for survival, "you're a Jew, aren't you? If we hadn't joined the fight against Hitler. you probably wouldn't be alive today. "Oh no, says he, "that was in Europe." His attitude then...
...best illustrated by the few sodden moments when he loses his way and tries to inject some social meaning into the film. Meyer apparently got the idea during the last half of the shooting that Vixen should touch on some Major Issues of the Day, like racial tension, the War, the draft, revolution, etc. He's not too good at dealing with these ideas, and he ended up dumping all his social messages on one character: a black motorcyclist, who left America because of the draft and who nearly hijacks Mr. Vixen's plane to Cuba to promote racial justice...
...space race, like heart transplants and war, is good for the encyclopedia business, and these people were in the encyclopedia business. A big selling point of the Collier's Encycpedia these folks sold is that the 24 volume set includes complete schematic diagrams of the moon flight (not to mention Czechoslovakian street fighting photos). So the Colliermen liked the moonshot, the way businessmen were once rumored to like the War, and the Colliermen went out to sell that day with especial eagerness...
...stumbled badly in its first step towards of feeting this good idea, though, when it chose Duncan to be the photographer. Duncan is the Harold Robbins of American photography-not very good, but very successful. His coverage of our two Asian wars. Korea and Vietnam, have made him the best-known photographer in America. His photos have always confirmed things that we already knew, or thought we knew. His war photos: our gallant boys, bravely fighting the faceless hordes: why, sure, war is hell, and our troops get exhausted, and dirty, and ... boy! it's rough; but still they fight...
...Americans. U.S. support of Saigon students and dissident Buddhists who wanted to overthrow Diem in 1963, made the U.S. responsible for a series of weak successor regimes and drew the U.S. further and further into this damned morass. The inglorious arguments that you despise, i.e. that this war is too costly and not in America's interest, would have had us out of Vietnam...