Word: wars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little promise that for a year no law firm would hire him. After an undistinguished career, he became a federal judge because of his capacities as a political fund raiser. Such are hardly the credentials for stature. But when the nation faced its gravest constitutional crisis since the Civil War, he provided a fresh instance of the American dictum: In times of extremity, men grow into their roles...
...War and Remembrance, Wouk...
...Richard Helms, who served as ambassador to Iran after retiring as CIA director in 1973. But he believes ways can be found to help a friendly regime that is in trouble if there is a will to find them. What people do not realize, says Helms, is that "the war is being fought in back alleys, not with tanks, guns or nuclear weapons. The CIA must be strengthened or we will lose this war...
Ochs wrote about her, and Billie Sol Estes, and the Vietnam war, and John Kennedy. As journalism student in college he sang the news the papers weren't printing. Yet his first three records sold less than 70,000 copies. Ochs finished his life never reaching the heart of the country his songs sought to transform...
...hundred pages document Ochs' rise to the post of "the Movement's poet revolutionary," and his fall through the long, long Nixon years. The only problem is that his rise was so pitifully short. Ochs had just about three years from his first major benefit at a Berkely anti-war teach-in in 1965 to the seemingly endless chain of disasters from Chicago onward before the movement slid away from...