Word: maim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...silly for several minutes by a Hull shot that glanced off the top of his head; he now wears a face mask against Chicago. Bobby is aware that he could permanently injure somebody, but he cannot permit himself to brood about it. "I'm certainly not out to maim anyone," he says, "but the goalies take their chances...
...quite like it. Tt is two kinds of combat against a two-faced enemy, and the combination is deadly. One fight pits the U.S. and its allies against North Vietnamese and main-force Viet Cong regular soldiers whose primary mission is as old as war itself: to kill and maim the opposing armies. The second fight is waged by a second enemy, the clandestine Viet Cong guerrilla. His uniform is the peasant's black pajamas, and his mission is a Communist innovation: to steal people as well as territory away from the South Vietnamese government...
...difference but maintains that it can not be "the decisive difference needed to justify a war that will last longer than any America has ever fought, employ more U.S. troops than in Korea, cost more than all the aid we have ever given to developing nations . . . kill and maim far more Vietnamese than a Communist regime would have liquidated . . . The evil outweighs the good." The difficulty in this position is that it involves all kinds of intangible calculations, judgments and prophecies. Who can really balance the destruction of war against the slaughter of political enemies that would result from...
Meselson believes that this argument breaks down when carefully examined. First, he says, one must realize that lethal and non-lethal are poles on a continuous spectrum of the effects of weapons. A weapon which is non-lethal can either temporarily incapacitate (like tear gas) or permanently maim. As long as it does not kill, it is non-lethal...
...forgive sinners "until seventy times seven," or 490 times (Matthew 18:21-22). Apparently suggesting the unforgivable 491st sin, the film depicts a Swedish sociological experiment in which a young bachelor named Krister (connoting Christ) shelters six juvenile delinquents who proceed to wreck his home, sell his furniture, maim themselves, cavort with a prostitute and force her to have inter course with a dog. Assorted scenes evoke other perversions from sodomy to fellatio; the picture ends with Krister's arrest and one boy's suicide...