Word: cog
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legal sphere, Miss Arendt condemned the "cog" theory as moral evasion. This theory argues that a functionary, like Eichmann, is not responsible for the criminal action of the government whose command he obeys. The courts should not deal with "systems" or "isms," but persons, she added...
...Philosopher Hannah Arendt cites these and other facts and concludes that Eichmann's version of his role in the murder of 5,000,000 Jews was closer to the truth than the Israeli prosecution's. He was not the mastermind, she is convinced. He was simply a cog in the machinery of murder...
...other side of the dial? Says Dr. Leo Goldberger, of N.Y.U.'s Research Center for Mental Health: "Long series of numbers, such as Army serial numbers, have come to connote loss of individual identity: one becomes-to add insult to injury-not only an insignificant cog in a great machine, but anonymous as well." Unpleasant things, he feels, are not only more difficult to memorize, but also more likely to be forgotten...
Outlets for the expression of opinion by students are always needed. The need is especially great today when mounting enrollments tend to isolate the student, to make him feel he is more a cog in a machine than part of a continuing educational process. Student newspapers provide forums in which all kinds of problems are discussed, and not just by the relative few who serve as editors...
Most Israelis seem impatient at the delays. A Jerusalem lawyer conceded last week that Hausner had not proved Eichmann was the "main cog'' in exterminating Jews. Too many others were involved, he said, "to pin all the blame on one man." Then he added: "But what does it matter if you hang Eichmann as a big or a little cog, so long as you hang him?" With the death penalty accepted as inevitable (though the 13-year-old state of Israel has never hanged anyone before), some Israelis wonder what should be done with Eichmann's body...