Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...until I try to leave the party early and am blocked at the door by an armed Israeli soldier that I realize that this is all a scheme designed to get us into the shelters. Once again, the kibbutz leaders do not want to alarm the rest of us by telling us the truth. It is not long before the first Palestinian rockets begin to explode nearby...
When I was a soldier, I was taught: "If it moves, salute it. If it doesn't move, whitewash it." Today's militant, if unsoldierly extremists have a simpler philosophy: whether it moves or not, kidnap it. We have seen the kidnaping of a Goya, a Fellini film, the corpse of a great comedian, an Italian political leader. We are shocked, but perhaps some of the shock comes from awareness that we are not shocked enough. We have already imagined most conceivable outrages against law and decency, or had them imagined for us in drugstore bestsellers or films...
...pains, Cowley recalls, "I was . . . excoriated in The Daily Worker and caricatured in The New Masses (as a soldier with a whisky flask in his hip pocket and a chamberpot on his head, offering a fascist salute to J.P. Morgan...
Larry Brown kept the Navy Midshipmen below deck for 12 innings yesterday as he hurled the Crimson baseball team to a 2-1 victory in a marathon contest at Soldier's Field...
...Moore's funeral. At the graveside are weeping priests. Mary Gordon knows the Irish Catholic enclaves of New York lethally well. The priests had been her father's companions, drinking for hours in his house and arguing about baptism of desire. Moore himself was a militant soldier of Christ and a right-wing fanatic: "His sympathies were with the South in the Civil War and the Spanish Fascists." But if his opinions were unfashionable and possibly barbaric, he knew something about the nature of his God's love for man, something his child has to learn...