Word: commitant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turning into the bedroom to don his Army greens. Half an hour later, Calley walked shakily before the six-man jury, saluted and heard the verdict: on three counts, guilty of premeditated murder of at least 22 Vietnamese civilians; on the fourth count, guilty of assault with intent to commit murder on a child approximately two years...
...issue: the utter immorality of all that the participants represent is manifest and is taken as assumed. Our "liberal" critics perhaps share this judgment, but they condemn our abuse of their sacred, traditional liberty-freedom of speech. I assert, in reply, that no one has the right to commit the crimes which our government and its lackeys are committing in Southeast Asia. Such criminals-and such representatives of theirs as we saw on stage Friday night-forfeit any "sacred right" to mouth their lies in my presence. They must therefore be stopped, as part of the great people's struggle...
Calley was also convicted of the murder of a Vietnamese man dressed in the white robes of a monk and of assault to commit murder for shooting at a small child in the ditch...
...Right now we don't have enough of an organization to commit ourselves to anything," Oliver said. The group will soon begin manning tables in Harvard and Radcliffe House dining halls to recruit new members, he said...
Finally, he is unsure how to end his film and lets it drift off in surrealism. Though his contempt for capitalism is apparent, Saura is unwilling to commit himself to a concrete alternative. He scores point after political point, but he stops his argument short of its finish. The film is a proof without a conclusion. And the problem is not in Saura's treatment but implicit in the subject itself. Capitalism is a system that yet awaits its formal conclusion, and while Saura marks time until the fall, he can only offer a pessimism cloaked in satire...