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...often relied upon artillery strikes to do the killing and the grunts to do the counting after death. Partly as a result, civilian dead were regularly recorded as killed Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers. Herbert trained his men to "close and kill-just like it says in the manual." Over and over he told them: "I want results with enemy soldiers, not civilians, not women or old men and kids...
...dependence on Western rationality. To become a "man of knowledge," one must learn "not doing" until one can "stop the world" and, finally, "see." These elusive concepts are cornerstones in the life Don Juan is teaching--that of a warrior. The chapter titles read like a Zen training manual: "Erasing Personal History," "Losing Self-Importance," "Disrupting the Routines of Life" and so on. When the two men journey to the desert or the mountains to practice these teachings, Castaneda must become involved or be crushed by Don Juan's "stupendous, awesome" world...
...journalism. We are going to show our contemporaries that we are at least as bright as they are, and perhaps.... During the process we discover to our amazement that our sentences are now taking shape all by themselves and that the typewriter keys seem to depress themselves almost without manual manipulation. We have arrived! We are now Editors! But there are many different kinds of editors. Some are poor editors; some are good editors; some are very good editors; and some have a talent for the business. But even the talented came up the hard way--word-brick by word...
...help out-of-town visitors, including scores of Nixon relatives, find their way around Washington, the Inaugural Committee is issuing 175,000 copies of a 32-page manual that lists festivities, their location and starting times; it even tells participants what to wear. The schedule includes 13 separate events during the weekend, not counting the parade, five balls and the Inauguration itself...
...centuries Chinese intellectuals had regarded manual labor as beneath their dignity. Even after Liberation, some students, although of working-class families, refused to recognize their parents...