Word: rot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anticlimax. The Dutch rulers of Western New Guinea have discouraged headhunting, so the elaborate buildup generally ends at this point. The ancestor poles are taken out into the sago forest and left to rot. Perhaps the souls of dead ancestors go away with them and cease to annoy the living; perhaps their decay helps the procreation of the sago trees. The Asmat are well aware that all this is an anticlimax, but when the Dutch leave New Guinea, as they soon must, the ceremonial may culminate as of old in a real head-hunting raid on a neighboring tribe...
...intend to sit in jail until we rot before we will declare that we are traitors," he said. "You can't kill ideas with prison cells any more than you can with guns." Davis has served five years in federal prison for conviction under the Smith...
Congratulations to the critic of Victim, who placed the reason for its immorality where it belonged. The public is alerted to fight the diseases that kill individuals, but asked to overlook and even condone an aberration that can rot a whole segment of our society. This is hardly entertainment...
...Gaulle, thinks Sartre, is a "Great Sorcerer" who will be swept away by civil war: "We'll have to fight or rot." Violence, Sartre suggests in a highly du bious prophecy, may cauterize and cleanse. In the meantime, he warns: "France in the past was the name of a country; let us take heed that it does not become the name of a neurosis...
...proved patriots, to get their names in the headlines. I don't think the U.S. needs superpatriots. We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we don't need these people that are more patriotic than anybody else. That's just rot, if you'll excuse the word...