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...extended newsreel showed just how sorry a situation there be: arguments obviously intended to go nowhere between righteous long-haired demonstrators and somewhat more self-consciously righteous short-haired jocks, with one beleaguered cop for good measure, pointing out in his New York accent that "when you tell someone ta move, he's sposta move." Perhaps Mr. Glassman missed this CBS coverage while he was watching NBC; perhaps it was while watching CBS that he missed NBC, if they did give coverage; or perhaps, like so many of us, he missed the whole thing in transit. At any rate...
...much left of them-buzzards and dogs, I suppose. Some had been shot in the head and some hadn't. They had been buried alive, I think. There were sort of scratches in the sand in one place, as if someone had clawed his way out. At Quan Ta Ngan three Australian warrant officers saw seven men in one of three graves they found. The seven, I was told, had been shot one after the other, through the back of the head, hands tied...
...general, Lifton discovered, hibakusha hold themselves in lower esteem than do other Japanese. In telling of the hibakusha experience, the late Yōkō Ōta, Japan's best-known writer of "Abomb" literature (Town of Corpses, Human Rags), depreciated her work and herself with such statements as "Do I have the right to imagination? Can what I say about the dead ever be authentic?" A Japanese professor of English expressed the same idea with lines from T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets: "They can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with...
Lifton sees this "shame of the living," as Yōkō Ōta called it, as perhaps the most fundamental human guilt. "The survivor," he writes, "can never, inwardly, simply conclude that it was logical and right for him, and not others, to survive."If [others] had not died, he would have had to; if he had not survived, someone else would have." In discussing this phenomenon, Lifton makes the argument that all men are survivors of Hiroshima...
...grown along with the war. Only two years ago, a modest 500 men a month were flown out to Hong Kong and Bangkok for brief vaca tions. This month, some 30,000 will wing off from the chill monsoon rains of the DMZ or the muddy Del ta for a five-day fling to a list of cities that now includes Honolulu, Tokyo, Taipei, Singapore, Manila, Penang, Kuala Lumpur and, most recently, Sydney.-It is probably something only the world's richest country could afford. To provide it, the Government pays Pan Am $23,500,000 a year...