Word: answering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME Correspondent Frank McCulloch, who spent 31 years covering the war, recalls: "I have seen men pushed out of airplanes, shot with their hands tied behind their backs, drowned because they refused to answer questions. I have also seen the bodies of women and children disemboweled by the Viet Cong." He recalls a young Marine who flung a Vietnamese woman to the ground and robbed her at knife-point of all her money because she failed to produce 15 piastres in change for some cookies he had bought from her. He saw Americal Division troops pound sand into the mouth...
...believer and unbeliever alike, Dostoevsky's riddle-"What am I doing on this earth where sorrow reigns?"-can only be solved provisionally or not at all. The collective historical experience of America is such that it has not really contemplated the question, much less tried to answer it; since De Tocqueville a succession of travelers from older and supposedly wiser civilizations have concluded that the U.S. lacks a tragic sense of life. The observation is largely true; the explanation is the varied strands of thought that, welded together, constitute the conventional wisdom of the American ethos...
...always seemed puzzling how the essentially pessimistic theology of Puritanism could become the underpinning of a buoyant, almost recklessly optimistic civilization. Part of the answer lies in the fact that the Puritan ethos not only posits the fall of man, it also implies the existence of an Elect of God. America has presumed itself to be God's chosen remnant, to the point where it very nearly subscribes to the anthropocentric heresy of Pelagius, the 5th century Christian ascetic who argued that man could gain salvation without divine grace by his efforts alone. Put in secular terms, the Pelagianism...
...Arab spokesman warned darkly that the Athens blast and the Swiss trial were "all connected." The Arab terrorists seemed totally uninterested in defending themselves. Backed by a claque of Arab lawyer-spectators from Algeria, Jordan, Libya and Egypt, the three denounced their court-appointed Swiss attorney and refused to answer all questions...
...pieces of furniture in the place, was donated by the landlady. Bachelor Rives and his diplomatic staff of two (a secretary and a communications expert) work in a makeshift office in the servants' quarters, using packing cases as a conference table. It is not unusual for Rives to answer telephone calls himself. The rest of the American diplomatic presence consists of two military men, both colonels and each with two servants, who rush about in rented cars...