Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possible that everyone who has been in Viet Nam, or knows someone who has, knows of atrocities like those...
...somewhat amazed at the naivete of Americans when it comes to fighting, killing, and war. They seem to have this idea that women and children are holy, pure and innocent, and are incapable of killing as men do. Nothing like a bottle of Coke half filled with battery acid sold to you by a mama-san, or how about a sandwich with ground glass in it? And that nice little kid who left his bicycle parked next to the mess hall-five minutes after 12, three guys were dead, others wounded...
...Emperor of Austria-and aggravate his own gout. But he and his times were not really in tune. The French Revolution Gibbon dismissed as "popular madness." The 19th century social scientist Walter Bagehot was probably right in judging him to be the sort of man that revolutionary mobs like to hang...
...been generations since Gibbon's masterpiece was regarded as definitive. The Greek scholar Richard Person once wittily observed: "Nor does his humanity ever slumber unless when women are ravished or the Christians persecuted." Today's scholars are more likely to complain that Gibbon was weak on the Byzantine and that he was most responsive to Romans like the Augustans, who resembled himself: "Urbane, accomplished, and occasionally a trifle pompous," as Peter Quennell put it in a Gibbon profile. Despite his limits, unpredictably, erratically, marvelously, Gibbon and Rome did go together. "Gibbon is a kind of bridge," Thomas Carlyle...
...three men who slipped into his bedroom stuck knives in it." Occasionally he offers a bemused sociological insight: "Southern Italy is the same as the rest of the world. People stroke and polish machines while goats urinate in their houses." The trouble is that after a while the joke, like chewing gum on a bedpost, loses its flavor...