Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nine-member panel composed of former Walpole inmates, citizen observers, and the Reverend Ed Rodman, chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee, held a press conference to discuss the relationship between the function of the National Prisoners Reform Association and the presence of the State Police at Walpole...
...intelligence programs" that are actually programs of mass murder. (My own favorite instance was Jerry Friedheim's admission last January that there might have been some damage to "the hospital the enemy calls Bach Mai.") But not enough attention has been paid to the language liberals have used to discuss...
...expanded bipartisan effort to convince the President to publicly discuss any part he may have played in the Watergate scandal has taken several forms. Many Republicans and Democrats have united in recommending that the president disclose his knowledge of the affair at a press conference, before the Ervin Committee and by release of all White House files concerning the scandal...
...black brother." It is difficult to imagine how he rose to such a position of prominence, but his henchmen seem impressed. They chase Shaft all over Ethiopia, from desert to village and even across the water to Paris. But he eventually dispatches them all, even taking time out to discuss a clitoridectomy with Aleme...
Around such recitals Lifton weaves his own insights. He discusses the myths of war and warriors, the guilt 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...