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Originally Posted by John Isbell
I also think publicly and conscientiously objecting to WW II would have been harder than doing so to Vietnam. Not a judgement of those wars per se, nor of the objectors, but of society's mood at the time.
Though American isolationism was going strong in 1940. I guess exact dates become important here, for both wartimes.
Update: to change the topic - reading some Hecht, whom I don't know well at all. Good stuff.
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Anthony Hecht has some truly stunning poems. I have an edition of his first four books of poems put together in a single volume. Can't locate it at the moment. Look for
The Venetian Vespers.
Good place to start here:
http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2013/...redible-hecht/
Added a wee snippet:
Where to begin? In a heaven of gold serifs
Or smooth and rounded loaves of risen gold
Formed into formal Caslon capitals
And graced with a pretzeled sinouous ampersand
Against a sanded ground of fire-truck red,...
Amazing.