Word: vigilanteism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With both superpowers patrolling the Mediterranean in force, the grim game of surveillance is played in dead earnest. Both sides are particularly vigilant for submarines, which are difficult to detect in the shallow waters where thermal layers and the screws of some 2,000 merchantmen on any day distort sound...
For six months after he was brutally beaten, gagged and dragged from a U.S. Coast Guard cutter by six burly Russians, little was heard of Lithuanian Sailor Simas Kudirka. Last November Kudirka, 32, sought asylum when his ship, the Sovietskaya Litva, tied up alongside the cutter Vigilant in U.S. territorial...
WITH ALL due respect to Professor Kennan's formidable distinction, his "Fresh Thoughts on South Africa" (The New York Times, 18 Dec., 1970), should more appropriately. have been entitled, "Stale Thoughts on South Africa." Professor Kennan spiritedly argues against the adroit and vigilant application of counter-force against the tyranny...
What is most annoying about Lerner's adaptation is its complete lack of a moral sense. Certainly Nabokov's book wasn't written to make parents more vigilant in bringing up their children, but there is a real feeling that what Humbert has done is wrong, that he has destroyed...
Soon after, the Russian ship, Sovietskaya Litva, was escorted from the area by Vigilant. Kudirka's fate is still unknown, but imaginable.