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...collective absolution. Deeds are done by individuals and must be judged individually. One of the evils of the 20th century has been the practice of totalitarians who create collective categories of people (the "bourgeoisie," for example, or "enemies of the people") in order to legitimize expropriation, imprisonment and mass slaughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Forgiveness to the Injured Doth Belong | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

...four romantic-lambs-for-slaughter are all quite bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. Unfortunately, their acting is not exceptional, which may be due to a directorial compression of their characters into one comic dimension. Susan Kelly is the lucky exception, however. As Myra Arundel she is as catty as a tabby from Wellesley...

Author: By T.m. Doyle, | Title: No Sneezes | 5/10/1985 | See Source »

...always had a profound respect for Steinman's vision. Why, take part 5: it's devastating, just devastating. All obsessions with characterization are gone. Instead, we have 30 faceless figures, paragons of modern man, wandering around, not doing anything at all interesting, just waiting in line until their inevitable slaughter. It's a disutopia that would terrify even Kafka...

Author: By Jeff Chest, | Title: They're Still Heeeere...' | 4/12/1985 | See Source »

Though neither side gained much from the slaughter, the battle gave Iraqi President Saddam Hussein an opportunity to savor a victory and allow his war- weary people to stage a celebration. The war, however, will continue as long % as Iran's leader, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, insists that Saddam must step down before there can be peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf Carnage in the Marshes | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

Lecturer in Jewish studies Erich Goldhagen said he asked the refugees to share their stories to dramatize the course's examination of the sociology of human slaughter. It was Chorn's second visit to the Harvard class: many students who heard his tale last year returned to listen again to the story of suffering...

Author: By Harry B. Lerner, | Title: Pol Pot Victims Recount Horrors | 3/9/1985 | See Source »

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