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...that men feel when they survive their buddies, the absolute necessity to view the enemy as something less than human. But he relentlessly uses his subjects as instruments in an elaborate post-mortem of slaughtered American values and conceits. The veterans speak in salty, evocative American. Lifton, straining for cosmic assertions, clutters his accompanying argument with dense jargon: "creative transmutation of rage," "moral inversion," "general psychohistorical dislocation." His decision to discuss in detail only members of VVAW is a more serious flaw. They are, after all, a very special group of antiwar activists...
Describing the action for future cameramen, Collier creates prose that often matches and sometimes surpasses even Milton's great-ranging visual imagination. He sees the fall of the rebel angels at cosmic distance, as a golden snowfall that fills the firmament. After Pandemonium (the house of all demons) is created by magic, its central room becomes as black as night, or the inside of Satan's skull, and myriad rows of attendant devils wink like stars. Satan and his dark disciples fly toward the high gate of hell bound for the corruption of mankind. They look, Collier writes...
Pompidou brought with him a different strategy. It reflected his suspicion (shared, to a lesser degree, in London and Bonn) that Washington's real purpose is considerably less cosmic: to use the threat of a unilateral withdrawal of U.S. forces in Europe, and of continued delays in the already overdue reform of the monetary system, to bludgeon the Europeans into making concessions on trade and balance of payments matters. Nixon has stressed that he has no intention of pulling out troops; but he does contend that the Common Market should reduce its tariffs and other barriers to U.S. products...
...conceived as a prodigious drama - "Qualis artifex pereo!" as Nero is supposed to have said ("What an artist dies with me!"). Even the name of his superstate, the Tausendjahrige Reich, or Thousand-Year Reich, was derived from prophetic myths about the Christian millennium: a time when, after a cosmic battle between Christ and Antichrist, the forces of evil are locked away forever, the dialectic of history is abolished, and a reign of permanent, static harmony prevails over the earth. So it happens that who ever plays Hitler in a movie, or how well, is not of much more than aesthetic...
Orgonon seems to have been a place where reality and the adventure fantasies of a boy could easily merge. Reich designated his son as a soldier in the Cosmic Engineers and even took him on missions. In Arizona, Peter operated a "cloudbuster," a gunlike device constructed of aluminum tubes that Reich believed could cause rain by directing the orgone in the atmosphere. Peter says it did rain; he also says he saw flying saucers (green and red disks) and even chased them with the cloudbuster...