Word: defenselessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next day, U.S. Ambassador Henry Byroade fired off an unusually strong protest charging that the Philippine government had ignored his requests (made before the demonstration) to protect his embassy-"a defenseless hostage"-from "an act of wanton vandalism." Foreign Secretary Carlos Romulo, who senses the mood of his country and is less friendly to the U.S. than in former times, apologized for the attack but testily suggested that the embassy "ponder such legitimate grievances" as the Plaza Miranda demonstrators voiced. Presumably he was alluding to often repeated charges that U.S. firms plunder Philippine mineral resources and that U.S. servicemen accused...
...advised a recent bride that she could consider herself fortunate if her husband treated her as "something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse." Queen Victoria, an early champion of the society, declared that "no civilization can be complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures." By her standards, Britain has reached Utopia...
Another big advantage the press has is an information monopoly. The papers carry stories of the guerrillas hacking defenseless women to death with machetes. There is Radio Havana, but this is a foreign voice, especially for the peasant. For the present, the most important source of ideology is still the Church. Remember that the other European colonizers never succeeded in imposing Christianity on the population as a whole; they merely cultivated it in their elites. Only the Spanish and the Portuguese conquered for Cross as well as gold. Orthodox Latin American Catholicism has always been profoundly degrading for the masses...
...Japan's feudal age, a defenseless noblewoman and her family are seized by bandits. She is sold for a whore. Her children become slaves of the ruthless Sansho, fief-holder to one of Japan's most powerful nobles. By linking the exploitation of the weak to the separation of a family, the film achieves a simple unity of immense power. The children's motivation to escape and find their mother is at the same time a political motivation. When the boy Zushio decides to become Sansho's man, his sister Anju taxes him not only for his cruelty...
...married last September and I've been lost ever since. I don't know what your martial [sic] state is, but if you can write to me it would help very much." Linda could not decide whether to say that her martial state was armed or defenseless...