Word: guilt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more vacationers nowadays tend to ballast their bags with classics or important current books. Main reason for the shift is that the heightened pressures of business, community and social life leave less and less opportunity for serious reading during the workaday year. Reading has become a game of guilt. Wrote Walter Kerr in The Decline of Pleasure: "We are all of us compelled to read for profit, party for contacts, lunch for contracts, bowl for unity, drive for mileage, gamble for charity, go out for the evening for the greater glory of the municipality, and stay home for the weekend...
...ultimate purpose of reading for points should be to tranquilize the non-reader's guilt and restore his self-confidence. One sure sign that the non-bookworm has turned and is reading for pleasure instead of improvement comes when he switches from hardbacks to paperbacks. It is almost an article of faith nowadays that paperbacks are for reading, hard-covers for coffee tables. Though the big-book syndrome lingers on among some bona-fide readers, notably Ivy League freshmen returning on home visits to the cultural outback, any volume big enough to be spotted three lounge chairs away immediately...
...widespread abuse of "command control" -the power of local commanders to convene courts-martial, appoint court members and review court verdicts. The record showed that all too many commanders had been using military courts as personal disciplinary weapons, ignoring even such bedrock rights as the presumption of innocence until guilt is proved beyond reasonable doubt. As one ex-Navy lawyer recalls: "The general attitude seemed to be that a man was going before a court-martial to receive a sentence rather than a trial...
...least five members, plus three lawyers trained as members of the particular service's Judge Advocate General's Corps. They are: the trial counsel, defense counsel and "law officer" (judge), who rules on all questions of law, but does not participate in the final secret vote for guilt or innocence. A general court can impose any statutory sentence, including dishonorable discharge, life imprisonment and death (by unanimous vote...
Fortunately, the film's most fascinating characters are too busy searching for love, sex and other gratifications to devote much time to easy platitudes about German guilt. Werner, as a man dying of heart disease, conceives a wasting fondness for la Condesa (Simone Signoret), an exiled Spanish noblewoman who trades her favors for narcotics. Their scenes together, a duet of eye-to-eye messages that make dialogue seem beside the point, are showstoppers of stunning subtlety...