Word: wars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late 1940s the band was nearly twice as large as today's group, with all the young men returning home from the war. In those days, members wore bright red jackets and ties over white pants with a red stripe. Five years after Segal began marching, the band sported its now familiar crimson jackets...
...vividly described by Mason Hammond in a 1936 document preserved in the Harvard University Library. Saradjeff was supposed to be a genius of ringing--a tortured but prolific composer of carillons with an ear tuned to the exact pitch of bronze. His face had been horribly disfigured during the war. He spoke no English and had a history of epilepsy. Without delay Saradjeff retired to the basement of J and K entries to tune the smaller bells, a cacophonous process involving endless tapping and filing. For weeks he wandered from bell to bell like the crazed ringmaster of a campanological...
...Intimate History of Killing, Joanna Bourke asserts that when ordinary men and women are freed from conventional social constraints, they find intense pleasure in the act of killing and that the structure of war allows for primal joy and even erotic satisfaction in intimate combat. Although Bourke writes lucidly and engagingly and argues with evident conviction, she comes up short on the evidence that would be necessary to support her daring claims...
...book is Bourke's limited research and biased bibliography. Her argument feels hollow and lopsided; her sources are undeniably selective and incomplete. Bourke ignores important studies that inconveniently contradict her assertions. Dave Grossman, in his Pulitzer Prize-nominated study, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, argues that most soldiers try to avoid killing and, when forced to kill, experience stages of thrill, remorse and rationalization. Bourke focuses on only one of these stages of emotion, thrill, ignoring the others. Similarly, she completely neglects John Keegan's The Face of Battle and mentions Richard...
...They are really opening up boxes [from the Korean War]," he said. "I'm satisfied that pretty soon we will at least know what can be reconstructed...