Word: wars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Africa. Make sure it's your history recalled by your grandmother and no one will know the difference because you are its living witness. Handlin says Haley really added yeast to his story when he devoted "85 per cent of his attention to the period before the Civil War, the time least subject to reader verification, the time most readily freighted with nostalgia and fantasy for their benefit...
...almost an act of contrition by states ashamed of their complacency in the face of genocide. The U.N. was declaring dramatically that it must never happen again. And in taking such unprecedented measures it implicitly acknowledged the special place that had to be accorded to Jews after the war; war; not accidentally, in the period between the resolution and the convention, the U.N. passed the resolution mandating the creation of a Jewish state in partitioned Palestine...
...awful truths about his father, but it's peculiar that at no time did a suspicious employer challenge Duke Wolff with a copy of the Yale Alumni Directory. No one bothered to question his patently phony credentials, because Wolff's devil-may-care lifestyle harmonized with American post-war values, which rated bravado far above competency. Both the child, Geoffrey Wolff, and the nation idolized men who--like Duke--"despised prudence, savings accounts, looks before leaps...
...Beware the narrow-minded politician, but fear not: for whether we go there for war, for profit, or for fun, our evolution into space...
KARL ARMSTRONG's words convey some of The War at Home's power and poignancy. Crisply edited and fairly short, about one hundred minutes, this new documentary outstrips any of the current films on Viet Nam: Coming Home, Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter. If you only see one film this year, make it The War at Home...