Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throat cutting has become the ritual form of execution, and each side has settled on a favorite dumping ground for victims. In the Moslem zone of Beirut, for instance, one busy repository is a murky space beneath a highway overpass. Its counterpart on the Christian side is a bridge 150 ft. above the Dog River on the road from Beirut to the renowned Casino du Liban. Bodies are simply tossed from the rail of the bridge, which has become a family sightseeing attraction. Cars double-park while occupants ogle the bodies far below without being bothered by the stench...
...existence, we in Tanzania have witnessed American military power being used in an attempt to crush the national liberation struggles of Viet Nam and Cambodia. In some Latin American countries we have seen American economic power being used to frustrate the democratic will of the people about their own form of government. We have felt the effects of America's direct and indirect, but very powerful, support for the racist and colonialist forces of southern Africa. And we have seen American power time and again being used to fight freedom on the plea that it is fighting Communism...
Full Explanation. That tyranny has been ended at Beth Israel. Soon after patients enter the hospital, they are given a little blue and white brochure. It tells them, among other things, what they are guaranteed: the best possible care regardless of the form of payment; a full explanation of their illness and treatment; knowledge of who is in charge of their care; and the privilege of leaving the hospital at any time, even over a doctor's objections...
...each other like cocks in a pit and serving only the dealers' interests. None of the slightly tacky glamour of the Biennale, with its conspiratorial gossip, could restore its lost prestige. Even the system of national exhibitions, organized by the cultural attaches of the world, took on a form of threadbare officialese. In 1968 the prizes were abandoned, but Italian students, demonstrating against "cultural imperialism," almost closed the Biennale. Then, woefully unsure of itself, the festival staggered toward its demise. In 1974 none was held...
...intended to put the left into the heirarchical world Moynihan feels comfortable in): Did they fear the "overwhelming power" of the Vietcong (who, Moynihan incorrectly says, were a "totalitarian regime...not many years back."). Or did they simply respect the right of the Vietnamese to choose their leaders and form of government and society without the interference of the United States? Did the left fear the MPLA in Angola or did they recognize the right of the Angolans to choose their own leaders? It is the Moynihans of this world who are afraid, who either bluntly or cunningly protect...