Word: particularizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reality. The longest war in the nation's history, with the American combat dead and wounded last week passing 300,000, seems at once horribly strange and grimly familiar. All too accustomed to daily deaths in Viet Nam, Americans needed time to grasp the fact that these particular deaths, caused by these particular young Americans, represented a very tragic difference...
...with its peculiar frustrations, its bloody agonies, its nervous uncertainties about who and where the enemy really is. But to excuse My Lai on these grounds, or to argue that the enemy has done worse (as he has), is to beg a graver issue. The fact remains that this particular atrocity-a clear violation of the civilized values America claims to up hold-was apparently ordered by officers of the U.S. military and carried out by sons of honorable, God-fearing people. Inevitably, My Lai will be taken by some as a measure of American society
...particular heresy of Americans that they see themselves as potential saints more than as real-life sinners. Seen in the transfiguring mirror of patriotism, the history of America is a record of triumph over adversity, moral earnestness and accomplishment. America's libertarian achievements and idealism certainly justify great pride; and the nation's technological record in taming nature is one of the world's wonders. But Americans have insufficiently considered the possibility that this record is also tarred with betrayals of the nation's democratic ideals, and that no nation has a solitary, superior claim...
Today's young radicals, in particular, are almost painfully sensitive to these and other wrongs of their society, and denounce them violently. But at the same time they are typically American in that they fail to place evil in its historic and human perspective. To them, evil is not an irreducible component of man, an inescapable fact of life but something committed by the older generation, attributable to a particular class or the "Establishment," and eradicable through love and revolution. In fact, the fight against evil is more complex. "Good and evil, we know, in the field of this...
...University has not prosecuted members of the public who demonstrate on its property if no academic complaint is going to be brought against the students involved. In the Cambridge Project demonstration, however, Berg was the only person disciplined. Several lawyers have questioned whether Harvard can arbitrarily exclude a particular member of the public from a demonstration or meeting generally open to public attendance without violating Constitutional guarantees of equal protection and due process. It is not clear that Harvard can constitutionally single out Berg for special criminal liability solely because of an academic penalty levied against him last year...