Word: barbarian
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...Lord Byron in the War for Greek Independence, followed by 14 years' wandering through Europe and the Middle East as soldier and adventurer, at 36 Guys decided to take up drawing. His first tries, according to his friend, Poet Charles Baudelaire, were "gloomy scratchings . . . He sketched like a barbarian, like an infant." But Guys stuck to it, and ten years later was good enough to get assignments as an artist-reporter for the Illustrated London News. "Do as you please with the landscape," he once wrote his editors from the Crimean battlefront. "Put in a snowstorm if you want...
...America," they proclaim, "must still count itself ... a finite threshold to infinity, a stage in the development of 'cosmic man.' Otherwise Western man has no future, and the barbarian inherits his earth. Such are the dimensions of the present struggle. All the civilization, the truths, the promises recited in this book are at stake...
...Malik spoke to his American listeners not in Russian but in English, heavily accented but clear. For another, the speech had been stripped of the more heavy-handed terms normally used by the Russian oratory: no one was called a "lackey" or "assassin" or "barbarian...
...make war against Philip like a barbarian when he wrestles ... If you hear that Philip has attacked in the Chersonese, you send help there; if he is at Thermopylae, you run there; and if he turns aside you follow him, to right or left, as if you were acting on his orders. Never a fixed plan, never any precautions; you wait for bad news before...
...barbarian is not only flourishing, added Roger P. McCutcheon, dean of the graduate school of Tulane University, but seems to be doing so with the full consent of the psychologist. Today, "a lazy student who receives a failing grade is likely to be diagnosed as 'maladjusted.' Similarly, the 'welladjusted' personality rates high in any listing of virtues. The term 'well-integrated personality' is beginning to appear on recommendations, always an ominous symptom...