Word: sergeant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marine Sergeant William Quarles, one of the 13 blacks and women released from captivity in the American embassy in Tehran in November, picked up a phone this month and heard a stranger say: "I know you feel guilty. Don't worry about it-it's normal." The man who impulsively made the call, Hank Siegel, should know. Siegel, a press officer for B'nai B'rith, was one of the 132 hostages taken by the fanatical Hanafi Muslims in 1977 when they occupied three buildings in Washington, D.C., for 38 hours. Because he had recently suffered...
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...
Saul L. Chafin, chief of University police and a sergeant in the department, travelled to London. England late last week to accompany a collection of 16th century Persian miniatures from the British Library to the National Gallery of Art in Washington...
Definitely the "Sergeant Pepper" of Christmas albums, this one will be remembered years from now as the time Snoopy first turned on and went psychedelic. Maybe it was there all along and we never noticed, never wanted to believe it. Along with that little roundheaded kid and the Great Pumpkin and the Red Baron and Woodstock, this puppy has been on a strange trip for quite a while. But this time he lets it all hang...
Consider: the album is ostensibly a story, a kind of opera, like "Sergeant Pepper." Everything sounds happy and clean and pure and good, but listen to what they're saying and the heavy drug overtones come through unmistakably. On "Kinda Looks Like Christmas," for example...