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...writing, but its core is a sense of violation. In Southern historical memory, the great act of violation was. of course, the Civil War and its aftermath. Put as baldly and inartistically as Margaret Mitchell put it, the lament of the South in Gone With the Wind was: a rape-of a people as well as a person-is a rape. Among greatly talented Southern writers, the theme of violation is indirectly stated but pervades the whole texture of life...
...then all at once, the boredom is gone and the "hostiles" are there. They pounce on an isolated homestead, kill the men, rape and kill the women. The captain sends out a patrol commanded by a youthful officer who has just seen the elegant lieutenant, merely for the hell of it, steal his girl. With all the suption gone out of him, he blunders when he bivouacs and his troop is wiped...
...during the first segment of the film. After that, he becomes a ray of light, a murmur of thunder. The script even avoids mentioning the birth of the Enlightened One's child, but otherwise spares nothing: the cartoon bevies of sensual maidens who surround the young prince, the rape of his wife by his malevolent cousin Devadatta, the visions of seminude sorceresses who tempt him to turn from the way of the spirit. There are also human sacrifices, torture, man-trampling elephants, death plunges, demons, ghosts and imps. Beyond that, the film will have sets appeal too: towering Brahman...
Vietnamese troops are also getting lessons in psychology: do not kill farmers' pigs or rape their daughters; military misconduct has been one of the biggest peasant complaints against the government. To make their point, the instructors unabashedly quote Mao Tse-tung himself on guerrilla tactics: "You are fish in the water, and the water is the people." To knit the villages together, give them some sense of contact with Saigon; villagers will be equipped with radio transmitters to permit fast report to headquarters when guerrillas attack. Diem's growing Youth Corps is being trained to run the transmitters...
...article on the treasures of the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul [June 23]. However, your reflections on the Turks as brutal conquerors are somewhat onesided. The damage wrought in Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks in 1453 was, in the light of those times, very slight. Contrast this with the incredible rape, vandalism and slaughter that accompanied the Christian armies of the Fourth Crusade when they sacked Constantinople in 1204. Suleiman I, as well as many others of his dynasty, looks like an angel when compared with many of his "civilized" Christian contemporaries in Europe...