Word: sword
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were afraid to pick up guns will now pick up guns," he said later. "They clearly made a mistake when they killed Dr. King. It would have been far better if they killed Rap Brown or myself. Then they could have said that 'they lived by the sword and they died by the sword...
...their protest marches, the militant student leaders who recently forced the closing of the University of Rome bore a banner inscribed with the three Ms of a new trinity: Marx, Marcuse and Mao. "We see Marx as prophet, Marcuse as his interpreter, and Mao as the sword," said one student-power advocate. On a visit to the Free University of Berlin last summer, Marcuse (pronounced Markooza) drew jammed lecture halls and wild ovations as he spoke glowingly of "the moral, political, intellectual and sexual rebellion of youth...
...watching Tom Jones; I liked the happy emergence of the killer in him whenever someone challenged him. His only contented moments in the middle acts came when faced by the blood-thirsty crowd--out comes the sword from the boot and Jones walks calmly in for the kill. Though he has a tendency to lapse into whining Burtonisms, Jones dominated the play: no mean feat considering the chaos with which Babe surrounds...
Nevertheless, top U.S. officers are talking increasingly of going back on the offensive. In Saigon, says one general, an attack on the encircling Communists "is imminent" because "the enemy just can't be left to hold even a rapier-sized sword near the city." In the North, another U.S. commander declared that the concentration of some 70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong has given the U.S. "silver-platter" opportunities to bring its firepower to bear in conventional battles...
...photograph accompanying the article: Henry Koerner's picture showing me standing next to a bullfighter who is also a pagan priest is entitled The Sacrifice. I am depicted in the crimson robes of a Harvard doctor holding the Torah. Next to me stands the bullfighter with drawn sword. There is a woman dressed in white in front of a bird bath in which there is a severed human head. The meaning is that the archaic and the contemporary coexist in religious ritual, as do the conscious and the unconscious. Thus the bullfighter has slain a human victim. This...