Word: barbarianism
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Very early on, while others dismissed Hitler as an unimportant barbarian, Malcolm Muggeridge described the Nazi rise as a threat to civilization. He also fellow-traveled to the Soviet Union in 1932 and found Joseph Stalin a dangerous influence. Sounding alarms to the readership of the Guardian had little effect-except on the Muggeridge style. Soon he was deriding his own trade: "The only fun of journalism is that it puts you in contact with the eminent without being under the necessity to admire them or take them seriously. It is the ideal profession for those who find power fascinating...
...begin with, and picks up none along the way--Bloom just seems to forget to give him one. He rampages across Lucifer, a sword in each hand, splattering limbs and skulls across the countryside, but earns less sympathy from the reader than even such legendary softies as Conan the Barbarian...
China's despotic Emperor Ch'in Shih Huang-ti (221-206 B.C.) ordered up a wall in 214 B.C. to keep out fierce barbarian invaders. The Roman Emperor Hadrian completed one in northern England in A.D. 136 to hold the marauding Picts at bay. Now the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has decided to build its own border monument along sections of the boundary between Mexico and California and between Mexico and Texas. The invading foe: an estimated 1 million Mexicans who cross illegally into the U.S. each year...
...largely honorary title, derived from the Venetian churches' dependence on the Byzantine Empire during the centuries of barbarian invasion. In 1451, consolidating earlier patriarchal titles, it was bestowed by Pope Nicholas V. But the Pope himself remains the ultimate "Patriarch of the West...
Schwarzenegger knows where the best deals like, his book notwithstanding, and he will soon embark on the first of what he hopes will be a series of films based on the fantasy paperback, Konan, the Barbarian--shades of Johnny Weismuller's Tarzan epics. Despite his typecasting for the role, Schwarzenegger has been taking acting lessons for some time, even though he says he knows how to act. After all, acting is supposed to be natural these days since it has "gotten away from that Shakespearean way, delivering the lines in a weird...