Unit 4: Part 3 Vocabulary

But before his jaws were sated with our blood,
Or pinefire took the garland of our towers,
He was thrown back

Words also, and thought as rapid as air,
He fashions to his good use; statecraft is his,
And his the skill that deflects the arrows of snow,
The spears of winter rain

Her mind’s a traitor: crimes kept in the dark
Cry for light, and the guardian brain shudders;
But how much worse than this
Is brazen boasting of barefaced anarchy!

Have you come here hating me, or have you come
With deference and with love, whatever I do?

Of all the people in this city, only she
Has had contempt for my law and broken it.

That piety shown the dead is pity in vain.

Though he flick my shoulders with his whip, I will not tell
him which way the fox ran.

Am I a spy in the land of the living, that I should deliver men
to Death?

Brother, the password and the plans of our city are safe with
me; never through me
Shall you be overcome.

Today, between writers of one country and the readers and writers of another, there is an almost instantaneous reciprocity, as I myself know.

Whoever has once announced violence as his METHOD must inexorably choose lying as his PRINCIPLE.

At birth, violence behaves openly and even proudly. But as soon as it becomes stronger and firmly established, it senses the thinning of the air around it and cannot go on without befogging itself in lies, coating itself with lying’s sugary oratory.

Juan knows there won’t be a problem with the letter’s contents, that it’s irreproachable, harmless.

Ulterior motives couldn’t be overlooked by the Censorship Division, but they needn’t be too strict with those who applied.

The building had a festive air on the outside that contrasted with its inner staidness.

Fueled by a desire to understand how ordinary Germans had managed to participate in the horrors of the Holocaust, Milgram decided to investigate when and why people obey authority. To do so, he developed an ingenious experimental paradigm that revealed the surprising degree to which ordinary individuals are willing to inflict pain on others.

In what became known as the baseline, or voice feedback, condition, the teacher sits in the same room as the experimenter.

Mel Slater, a computer scientist at University College London, has developed a virtual-reality simulation of the obedience paradigm.

(3) Based solely upon policy, pragmatism, or expediency.

(3) Based solely upon policy, pragmatism, or expediency.

(b) Relevant factors that should be considered in determining a person’s claim of conscientious objection include training in the home and church; general demeanor and pattern of conduct...