Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THIS AGE OF VIOLENCE, by Fredric Wertham. A clinical psychiatrist's indignant analysis of the seeds of violence in contemporary society, from toy guns and war games to TV drama and current fiction. Not even Superman or the Unknown Soldier gets a clean bill of health in this unsettling though probably oversimplified book...
...McNamara has suggested that a man might do his patriotic duty either through military service or through appropriate civilian work, such as that of the Peace Corps. Opponents of this idea have quite rightly objected that no civilian alternative to the armed forces demands the potential sacrifice of the soldier on the battlefield: his very life. But there is a simple and obvoius remedy for this defect. Each month the percentage of war deaths should be determined, and this proportion of men engaged in nonmilitary national service should be selected at random and shot. Paul R. Chernoff...
...most nerveless member of the company, of course, is Bing himself. He often pulls a Hitchcock and turns up onstage as a breastplated soldier in Eugen Onegin or leading the soldier's band in Faust. But he is really a frustrated conductor. In the theater, in the subway, walking along the street, his hands are continually dancing as he sings and hums some aria playing through his mind (he also knows the words and music to more than 1,000 lieder, continually amazes the singers by quoting snatches of librettos from obscure operas). At night, sitting in his office...
...because its very existence forces society to contemplate genocide. Tobacco and alcohol advertising, he believes, also teach a subtle disregard for human welfare, as does the U.S. acceptance of the annual total of traffic fatalities-"vehicular violence." Even patriotism comes under Wertham's rebuke. Monuments to the Unknown Soldier "do not fulfill our duty to the victims," but in fact feed the 20th century's growing disregard for the victim as a faceless statistic...
...kids." The neighborhood hero is the man who betters his lot by any means -the man who "wears a $200 silk suit every day, $55 alligator shoes and this sort of thing. He drives a big Cadillac, because they know he is winning the war. He is a soldier, you know, like he is a real soldier. He is a general in the community. If he gets busted [arrested], well, he is just a prisoner...