Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE. Frank Marcus turns a harsh spotlight on a radio heroine (Beryl Reid), who plays a selfless nurse on the air-and then performs in private life as a violent lesbian terrorizing all who cross her path.
Biblical teaching brought a new note of individual responsibility to war; the One God became the witness to every killing, the unerring judge of every motive. The basic Old Testament rules of warfare were laid down in Deuteronomy. Enemies within Israel were to be wiped out, and their cities razed...
St. Thomas Aquinas and others expanded Augustine's standards, and the list has been elaborated ever since. Modern criteria of a just war include 1) discrimination between killing soldiers and civilians; 2) reasonable possibility of victory; 3) "proportionality" between the amount of harm done by the war and the...
Most CO's reject this interpretation. A sophomore CO pointed out that the Army Field Manual describes the primary duty of the medic as no different than any other soldier--to contribute to the victory of the command. "If I were a medic," he continued, "I'd feel obliged to...
Few Harvard CO's are personal pacifists. "These guys will hit back if someone attacks them," according to an AFSC draft advisor. Although some insist on the absolute sanctity of human life, most believe that even killing is justifiable in some instances. The question is, where does one draw the...