Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Running from the sound of the exploding grenade, Private Tamura felt a fragment rip his shoulder and saw the gouged chunk of his own flesh lying on the ground. He picked it up, wiped it clean and popped it into his mouth. He was that hungry and, besides, "There could certainly be nothing wrong in eating my own flesh...
...deserted village, and he senselessly shoots a returning woman who shrieks when she sees him. With other drifting troops, his effort to slip through the American lines fails, and the weakened Tamura senses the first intimations of madness. He also becomes increasingly aware of the temptation to eat the flesh of the occasional Japanese corpses he finds everywhere, some of them already stripped by others. When finally he attempts to hack off some flesh with a bayonet, his left hand compulsively grips his right and saves him from cannibalism...
...Pride almost succeeds in personalizing its heroics, but its humans tend to get lost in what amounts to runaway mass movement. Not so strangely, the movie's true hero and source of its emotional appeal is a monster cannon whose ornate bronze undergoes triumphs and mortifications that flesh could never endure...
Question of Principle. Connecticut's Republican Senator William A. Purtell went farther. Said he: "If this doctor must exact the last pound of flesh from the practice of his profession," citizens generally should raise a fund to pay the bill. "I am willing," added Purtell, "out of the outrage to my soul, to subscribe the first $50." But, said Dr. Kris, "it's not a question of money. It's a question of principle...
...title for his book from a text that he attributes to an 18th century merchant: "These people of the South have upon them the mark of original sin, a curse of Satanas. Whence poverty, invasions, the Bourbons, Jesuits, cholera and all the ills that afflict the spirit and the flesh. And then you ask me: Why do they leave? Are they not content here? I tell you: No. And no government-as distinguished from Christ -can ever redeem them...