Word: superhumans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vietnam became a symbol for us, proof that socialism could work, that people could master their own destiny. The Vietnamese revolutionaries seemed courageous and cooperative, almost superhuman. Socialist men and women stood in the rice fields and the high plateaus, calmly firing rifles skyward as American divebombers screamed down to engulf them in flaming destruction. Vietnam showed us that might can never subdue justice, that a people striving together to be free cannot be stopped short of genocide...
Vietnam became for us a symbol, proof that socialism could work, that people could master their own destiny. The Vietnamese revolutionaries seemed almost superhuman, courageous and cooperative. Socialist Men and Women in the rice field and the high plateaus, calmly firing rifles skyward as American divebombers screamed down to engulf them in flaming destruction. Vietnam showed us that might can never subdue justice, that a people striving together to be free cannot be stopped short of genocide...
...minute wreath-laying ceremony at a massive black Monument to the Heroes of the Ghetto. Said Marek Edelman, 53, the only leader of the uprising who still lives in Poland: "We proved that a few people, hungry and poorly equipped, could resist, and that the Germans were not a superhuman force...
...admiration for people who could fire hopelessly and calmly at phalanxes of B52's is not therefore less. Quite the reverse, since superhuman heroism has as little meaning to ordinary people like us as the subhumanity to which Nixon would reduce his victims. But our shame is greater. For we allowed the bureaucrats to send those phalanxes in our name...
...monarchy, which even in its postwar, watered-down form remains the country's most revered institution. As Murakoshi sees it, the Emperor symbolizes and enforces the status quo in the Japanese system, and is thus responsible for the plight of the buraku-min. "Just as Japan created a superhuman being," Murakoshi charges angrily, "so it created, by necessity, a class of subhumans...