Word: aggressor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the Stockholm syndrome is different from brainwashing, the same principle is involved: identification with the aggressor. Says David G. Hubbard, a Dallas psychiatrist who has handled many terrorist incidents: "It's brainwashing if an enemy does it to you. If a sergeant does it to a Marine recruit, it's called good indoctrination. The Iranians didn't maliciously set out to arrange the brains of the hostages. But you get something of the same effect just by the constant threat of death. The more primitive the threat, the more apt you are to induce a kind...
...argued that Hanoi's offensive was not in fact an offensive, since it had been provoked by the U.S., which was the real aggressor. He proceeded to quote statements from our American critics to support his position, which led to a testy exchange...
More pointed restraint was necessary when the Pope recalled that in 1944 the city of Warsaw rose up to wage "an unequal battle against the aggressor . . . in which it was buried under its own ruins." During that battle, he noted, the city was "abandoned by the Allied powers." He spoke of Allies in the plural, but only one was involved. Stalin halted his troops a few miles outside the city and left the Polish underground army to be massacred. But the Pope also made a poignant statement about the wartime sufferings of the Soviet people...
Louis' fantastic speculations provide strange insights into Soviet thinking about China and the Chinese. To provide evidence for his reasoning, Louis quotes strongly chauvinistic Russian ethnographers and explorers of the 19th century and laces his narrative with chapter headings like "Yellow Colonialism," "They Want to Secede" and "The Aggressor Rebuffed." He argues that China "can hardly be said to have any common cultural makeup" and virtually denies the existence of an official national dialect, Mandarin. He also asserts that the Chinese are not patriotic but only respond to individual leadership...
...MOST appalling story in this volume is entitled "Hilda and Rango." Hilda is a young woman in Paris who is attracted to a Hemingway-esque American writer. When she gets into bed with him, she finds that he is really rather retiring and prefers her to be the aggressor. They become lovers and she assumes the role of leader to please him. But she is not fulfilled. "She had always dreamed of having a man who would force her will, rule her sexually, lead...