Word: saying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Benning, Ga., who would not give his name said he and other G.I.s had taken three Viet Cong prisoners up in a helicopter. "We told them to talk or we'd throw them out. The first guy wouldn't talk, so we tossed him out. The second wouldn't say anything, so we dumped him. The third one talked...
Some of the men of Charlie Company say that their act was no different from bombings carried out by high-flying pilots?and for peasants the outcome is often deathly similar. This argument raises a troubling ethical question about the nature of war; yet it clearly takes greater savagery to kill a defenseless human being when one looks into his face than when one never sees...
...stark terms of black and white. It has been pointed out endlessly, and correctly, that the western, with its crude division of good guys and bad guys, is the nation's archetypal art form. Evil has thus been transmogrified, whenever possible, into the definable, detestable enemy-like Hitler, say-who could always be defeated by the forces of justice. The national instinct to juxtapose good and evil is summed up with only a touch of irony by W. H. Auden's nostalgic reference to simpler times in his Epistle to a Godson...
...evil, we know, in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably," said Milton. The West's philosophic heritage shows that both are components of human existence, intertwined and inseparable. As Luther suggested, man is simul justus ac peccator-saint and sinner at once. To say that evil is part of man is not to condone evil deeds in men. Wrongdoing is not to be shrugged off with easy references to human nature. Yet to ignore the persistent dark element in man can be as misleading, and intolerant, as to see only the dark...
...Order: "Man has been given his freedom to a greater extent than ever, and that's quite wrong. Adults like to be led. They would rather respond to a form of discipline. People say they want freedom; yet they tie themselves up completely with drugs...