Word: wars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Exactly what is happening on Brattle Street are three one-act plays, all written by young Americans and all deeply rooted in the nightmarish decade that is now grinding to a halt. A decade of snipings and war, assassinations and drugs, Tiny Tim and Aretha Franklin- Morning, Noon and Night is not so much about these things as of them. And such is the stuff we are made of- we and night mares...
...beloved, but that doesn't matter. What does matter is what they do agree on: It is all no use. No use to go on living in a world where all we can wait for is the inevitable senseless killing- the death that comes more and more from a war, a riot, a plane crash, a sniper's bullet...
...since the "bring the boys home" hysteria at the end of World War II, which resulted at least in part in the Soviet Union's success in shunting millions of people from Nazi occupation to Communist occupation, has there been such a deliberate and dishonest play on the emotions of the American people...
...desire for peace, the deep and personal sorrows of families who have lost loved ones in Vietnam, the weariness with the administration's no-win policies- all are ingredients in the nationwide anti-war Vietnam moratorium which, regrettably, will fool many well-meaning citizens into taking part in demonstrations that can only serve to prolong the war in Vietnam or to hasten the moment of national dishonor...
This newspaper has had its differences of opinion with President Nixon concerning the Vietnam War, but we do regard him as a well-intentioned man who will ulitmately balk at proposals to sell millions of Southeast Asians into bondage. We do believe that he intends to honor our treaty commitments, and that he genuinely- albeit mistakenly- is now convinced that the enemy will become reasonable when the enemy senses that there is nothing to be gained by stalling at the peace negotiations...