Word: barbarianism
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CONAN THE BARBARIAN Directed by John Milius Screenplay by John Milius and Oliver Stone...
...great books, but from Weird Tales, a pulp magazine of the 1930s, and owes his continued life to comic books and paperback originals. Nostalgia for creatures from the black lagoon of adolescent fantasy, even a certain wry affection, is permissible; the lugubrious sobriety John Milius brings to Conan the Barbarian...
Vermeule will speak on "Greeks and Barbarian: the Classical Experience in the Larger World" in Washington on May 5 The lecture, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is accompanied by a $10,000 prize...
...Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader from 1929 to 1953; Adolf Hitler, an automatic club member as leader of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945; Mao Tse-tung, Chinese Communist leader from 1949 to 1976; and the only living honoree, Uganda's brutish, exiled Dictator Idi Amin. Seven politicians, a barbarian, a lady-in-hating and a frustrated artist. But only one woman? Says Steven Schlesinger, one of the voters: "We only selected one woman not because we're chauvinists but because few women have been in a position to cause the kind of damage men have...
...Soviet relations and memories of America's recent war in Southeast Asia had deepened China's traditional sense of isolation and natural mistrust of outsiders. Although he gorged on statistics and toasts to peace and friendship, Schell felt as if he were part of an experiment in "barbarian management." There were no casual chats, no exchanges of mailing addresses and certainly no offers of female companionship. "In the back streets of China's less cosmopolitan cities," he recalls, "I would sometimes see mothers protectively grab their children as I passed...