Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paying my debt to society. That is why I am running." Indeed, Norman Mailer waxes positively solemn when he talks about his candidacy for mayor of New York. The celebrated author of The Naked and the Dead, more recently of The Armies of the Night, which won him a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize, is one of a field of five in next week's Democratic pri mary. Best known among the others are Robert Wagner, mayor from 1954 until Republican John Lindsay took over in 1966, and Mario Procaccino, the city controller...
...years after the Six-Day War, the fedayeen remain the Arabs' main weapon. The cost has been high: by Israeli body count, the fedayeen have suffered 450 dead on Israeli-held territory and an estimated 550 more in clashes across or on the other side of the border; they have also lost 2,000 captured. But at the same time, the guerrillas have forced Israel to maintain its military force at full strength. Ironically, in the course of their war, the fedayeen have also set themselves on a possible collision course with some of the Arab governments who sponsor...
...Belief. The fedayeen themselves seem undaunted by their high casualties; 50% losses in dead, wounded and captured are not uncommon, and since the beginning of the year, some 200 guerrillas have been killed. They also profess to be unconcerned by the apparent futility of many of their attacks, the intramural rivalries among commando groups, and signs of mounting conflict with other Arabs. They still have money -from Arab governments and private contributions-and enough recruits, and they seem determined to fight on regardless of consequences. As one of Al-Fatah's leaders said last week, "We are now living...
What have they said about our millions? Eighteen white men assisting in the crime of genocide. What do they say about our murdered innocents? How many black dead make one missing white? Mathematicians, please answer me. Is it infinity...
...world of books and scholarship, however, runs the risk of becoming a dead one if it does not in some way relate to the incredible sweep of change that is going on around it. Hofer is deeply sensitive to this problem, probably the overriding problem that the Houghton now faces...