Word: slaughtering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...manuals, was prime for a non-fiction book that reads like a good novel. However, what is clear is that, in Brown's words, "history has a way of intruding upon the present." After reading the descriptions of the Chivington and Sand Creek Massacres and the slaughter at Wounded Knee, it becomes far more difficult to feign surprise at MyLai, and mumble convincingly that that's just not the sort of thing that American boys will do. One's excitement over the Pentagon Papers is somewhat diminished by Brown's account of how and why the government's Indian policy...
Medina's stunning admission seriously undermines the Army's case against Henderson, who is the highest-ranking officer to be brought to trial in connection with the My Lai murders. Henderson, his lawyers contended, tried to investigate the rumors of slaughter but was misled by officers under his command. Medina's testimony obviously strengthened that contention...
Joining Crone and Marinaro in the backfield were Penn State's quarterback John Hufnagel, who passed for 168 yards and two touchdowns in the Nittany Lions' 55-18 slaughter of Pitt, and Jim Jennings of Rutgers. Jennings, a sophomore, carried the ball 21 times for 108 yards and three touchdowns against Colgate...
...sterility of bourgeois life, are all either sketched in, or driven home with a sledgehammer. Bless the Beasts and Children is so lacking in intellect, or psychological veracity, that its heavy allegory of six middle-class youngsters who try to save 70 buffalo from an annual sport-slaughter becomes, in effect, only a shaggy-bull story. Columbia execs must be worried: the film has, in general, been drubbed, and they've given it a big Boston build-up. They're also clever: the film cost a cheap $840,000 to make, and if they plug it hard enough, in today...
...untapped depths of human understanding'; if you get a Negro and a cracker on the same side of a chase, they'll learn to respect each other. Think of Pauline Kael on Ship of Fools: "Original Sin Meets Mr. Fixit." As for recalcitrant Nazis or racists: Kramer only suggests slaughter...