Word: slaughter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost entirely successful. The rigid troops move forward like wind-up toy soldiers, under the hypnotic spell of unquestioned tradition. The firing begins; the hoofs and bodies and blood combine. Screams and guns seem to reach beyond the screen. The hysteria and terror are as palpable as dust; the slaughter is a testament to the inanity of blind obedience. By itself, the scene is confused and intense. It is harrowing, and it is magnificent. But it does not make a movie...
...Harvard season opener against Holy Cross, the linebackers and cornerbacks were continually burned by passer Phil O'Neil, so Yovicsin has been drilling them hard ever since. He noted considerable improvement in the Bucknell slaughter last weekend, but Domres figures to be a real test...
...CRIMSON is the voice of this student body, how can the premeditated slaughter of students, gathered together in non-violent demonstration, occur without raising instant editorial comment and condemnation? Is it because "it can't happen here" where students and administration work at developing a dialogue "in an atmosphere of mutual respect?" Columbia, Chicago and numerous recent events tell us that it can happen here: the Harvard community has no guaranteed immunity to the forces of reaction. Slaughter of students is a world-wide phenomenon no longer unknown within our own boundaries...
...thing, don't you?"Bobby sets out to prove what he can do. He begins by methodically killing his wife and mother. Then, from an oil-storage tank and later at a drive-in theater, he coolly fires away at helpless motorists trapped in their cars. The slaughter does not end until Boris Karloff, stoically suffering through a prolonged cameo appearance as a fading horror-movie star, collars the killer. "I hardly ever missed, did I?" says Bobby to the police as the handcuffs...
Indonesia's Communist party was all but wiped out in the wave of anti-Communist slaughter that followed the party's abortive coup in 1965. Since the pogrom, Indonesia's leadership has warned time and again that the Com munists were plotting a comeback. So often was the message repeated that most Indonesians came to pay it scant attention. This month the government produced evidence that even the most hard-nosed skeptics could not ignore: the army announced that it had broken up an incipient guerrilla movement in East Java led by surviving Central Com mittee members...