Word: wounded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reached one-third, by 1950 three-quarters, by 1970 nearly 90%. Whatever lay in darkness was to be illuminated. Whatever stood whole and secure was to be smashed, indeed was assumed already disintegrated in its essential form. Eliot began The Waste Land bemoaning "a heap of broken images," but wound up shoring "fragments against ruins." Since life evidently lay in pieces, perhaps it ought to remain that way. Rene Magritte drew disembodied noses and nude torsos stuffed into bottles, while Henry Moore sculpted a Two-Piece Reclining Figure, a perfect fusion of leisure and fragmentation...
...greatest and most terrible of wars ended, this week, in the echoes of an enormous event-an event so much more enormous that, relative to it, the war itself shrank to minor significance. In what they said and did, men were still, as in the aftershock of a great wound, bemused and only semi-articulate, whether they were soldiers or scientists, or great statesmen, or the simplest of men. But in the dark depths of their minds and hearts, huge forms moved and silently arrayed themselves: Titans, arranging out of the chaos an age in which victory was already only...
...atom, humanity, already profoundly perplexed and disunified, was brought inescapably into a new age. The race had been won, the weapon had been used by those on whom civilization could best hope to depend; but the demonstration of power against living creatures instead of dead matter created a bottomless wound in the living conscience of the race. The rational mind had won the most Promethean of its conquests over nature, and had put into the hands of common man the fire and force of the sun itself...
...dogs would die anyway. They would be strays, caged in shelters, ready to be "put to sleep." The idea was that the Defense Department's new Wound Laboratory would pay about $80 for each dog. When the time came for research to proceed, the dogs would be anesthetized with pentobarbital, suspended in nylon mesh slings and shot with a 9-mm Mauser from a distance of twelve or 15 feet. The dogs would then be carried into a lab, and people studying to be military surgeons would examine the damage and learn something about gunshot wounds, which might some...
...harsh moral configuration. The Wound Laboratory is perfectly designed to bring on a confrontation between the zealot and the omelet maker (the omelet maker being the one who always insists that you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs). The issue is framed exactly: animal life is forfeit to the potential gain of human life. An ironist would point out that the Wound Laboratory would put animals to death in order to perfect the human talent to make war-and that war is humanity's most dramatic bestiality. Inevitably, the idea of the Wound Laboratory...