Word: wars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vietnam Moratorium Committee, which supports the drive, will provide petitions which donors can sign to express their opposition to the Vietnam war...
Though down 0-14 and with their restive fans singing "Goodbye Dwight." (an obvious reference to Dwight Sargent. Nieman group curator who had before today yet to defeat the CRIMSON) the Niemans continued to play unusually clean and to think well of the Vietnam war. They also suffered rain, snow, and a hailstorm: the CRIMSON, on the other hand, had the sunny end of the field...
...doubt any play which singles out for condemnation war and debasement of love is highly topical. As Seltber says, the play is complex, but it is still fair to call it an indictment of "wars and lechery...
From the "sluggish excursions into beauty and truth" which characterized the epoch between the Wars, to Bly's annoyed proclamation in 1953 that MOST OF THE POETRY PUBLISHED NOW-A-DAYS IS OLD FASHIONED. The Advocate vacillated between innovation and a nervous caution. A reaction in the fifties against the poetic domination of Eliot was expressed by Peter Viereck in a parody of Prufrock: "Today the women come and go Talking of T.S. Eliot." Jonathan Culler, in his introduction to the Centennial Anthology, described a magazine that had "stayed Georgian ten years too late during the poetic ferment...
...differ with your "News Analysis" of the Washington Mobilization (by Robert Krim, Tues., Nov. 18). The reporter seems to feel that there is a growing trend towards violence in the anti-war movement, or at least that the D.C. protest indicated that. On the contrary. I was struck by the overwhelming rejection of violence and of intolerance by the main body of the quarter million plus people at the March and rally...