Word: wantoned
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...persuasively attack the University for complicity in imperialism at home and abroad because the University has instrumentalized itself. It has said that moral judgments are irrelevant, that research is value-free, that the wanton slaughter of Orientals is less important than the niceties of free speech. Such is the sickness of "pure rationality." The University produces Walt Rostows. Henry Kissingers, McGeorge Bundys. It can carry on its affairs with a president who refuses to see undergraduates, and a dean who blithely and automatically reduces emotionally-charged issues such as equal sex admissions to an abstract discussion of "relative pain levels...
...Intercontinental and a dozen Chinese restaurants ^ that few of its 1,500,000 people could afford. Now, IP in many ways, it has become a city of the dead. A month after the army struck, unleashing tank guns and automatic weapons against largely unarmed civilians in 34 hours of wanton slaughter, Dacca is still shocked and shuttered, its remaining inhabitants living in terror under the grip of army control. The exact toll will never be known, but probably more than 10,000 were killed in Dacca alone...
...time, nostalgia will dim or even erase memories of assassinations, wars, racial hatred and student riots from its vision of the '60s, just as it has long since done away with the slime, the stench and the wanton slaughter of that noblest of human conflicts, World War I. Nostalgia is like Marie Antoinette, who commissioned the finest artists and architects of France to build eight picturesque peasant farms beside her Petit Trianon. They were perfect-right down to porcelain vases from Sevres used for milking the cows. Nostalgia selects only what is agreeable, and even that it distorts...
RUSTY CALLEY stands convicted of wanton slaughter, but in his private life he is an unlikely villain. He is not a monster, not a callous warrior, not the tattooed caricature of the professional killer who does target practice on weekends and keeps a rifle mounted in the rear window of a pickup truck. In the evening, casually attired in blue jeans or bellbottoms, he could be any young American...
...quickly. His life consists of "violent periods interspersed with short pauses spent in simple pleasures," but those pleasures include neither smoking nor drinking. Women? With his athlete's body and his eagle's profile, he is catnip to the ladies, but he spurns them -particularly those with wanton Western ways. He is a gentle man, except when provoked. "There is a time for diplomacy and there is a time for fighting," he says. "The time for diplomacy is long past. Violence must be answered with violence." He is Lieut. Mourad Saber, 32, Agent SM-15 of Algerian counterespionage...