Word: defectiveness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Many of them will find waiting a small gift from the government of South Viet Nam: a compact do-it-yourself defection kit. Wrapped in vinyl, it contains all that a faltering Viet Cong needs to defect, including a safe-conduct pass and a map of the local district showing precisely where-and how-to find the Allied side. Throughout the country, the kits will be hand-delivered to Viet Cong families by an extraordinary assembly of postmen: former Viet Cong who, as Hoi Chanh (returnees), have become members of the government's armed propaganda teams. The kit will...
...Prices will go higher and higher. You may lose all of your wealth, fruit of your sweat and tears." Propaganda teams deliver personal letters by the thousands to homes of suspected Viet Cong, some frankly designed to so compromise a Viet Cong that he is forced to defect to save his life. Broadcasts carry 20 messages in local dialects over South Viet Nam. During Tet, radio and television appeals will be beamed out 18 times...
Ideological Defect. The burden of Liu's self-denunciation turned on his "lack of understanding" and "miscalculation" of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution-in other words, his opposition to Mao. Now, he said, "I have decided to submit faithfully to the regulations of the party and not to be of two minds in party matters." It all sounded definitively abject-the words of a vanquished...
...Freeman) ordering federal judges in New York, Connecticut and Vermont to use the American Law Institute's new insanity test. By that test, "a person is not responsible for criminal conduct if at the time of such conduct, as a result of men tal disease or defect, he lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law." Last month the same appellate court reversed Shelter's conviction and ordered a new trial in which he can seek acquittal by reason of Freeman-style insanity...
...major work. Yet with the slick surface stripped away from Wilder, he turns from a destructive into a constructive cynic. You learn again that evil mercenary people dominate the world, and for the first time that relative goodness need not indicate a suspect I.Q. or similar character defect...