Word: comradeships
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...loyalty of warrior to king celebrated in Anglo-Saxon poetry. But there is no single, unifying quest and, above all, no band of brothers for the reader to identify with as they struggle across a perilous land scape. No Hobbits either, with their lame jokes and sheer joy in comradeship and camping out in the countryside that helped keep things rolling, volume after volume, through the dry and brambly patches of the Rings cycle...
Cozy Chatter. In a gush of good will, the 95th Congress convened amid clinking glasses, receptions that stumbled on into the evening hours and cozy chatter about a new comradeship between Capitol Hill and the White House. Nearly 200 children of all ages gamboled about the House floor as all but one of the 435 Representatives (Illinois' Morgan Murphy was absent for a funeral) attended the opening ceremonies, many bringing their families. In the Senate, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller presided over the opening rituals as one of his final official acts in the fading Republican Administration. In both chambers...
...psychological stresses of mixed doubles for many couples. Indeed, the mystery is, in view of the possible pain, why so many people want to play mixed doubles at all. One reason, masquerading under the jargon of togetherness, is a persistent yearning for a shared skill, for a kind of comradeship that husbands and wives feel ought to be part of a modern marriage. "It was sort of like circling the wagons," a 45-year-old wife says wistfully. "However you worked it out, you were supposed to be stronger for being together." Another reason is the evident pleasure...
...surrealist man: he even read Freud's Interpretation of Dreams. It was World War I that clinched Ernst's attitudes to authority. He spent the war years in the German army, in both France and Poland. When he came out of the army he found comradeship with a generation of gifted, irascible young .intellectuals and artists whose loathing of that "whole immense Schweinerei of the imbecilic war" crossed the frontiers of Europe: Jean Arp and Tristan Tzara in Zurich, George Grosz, John Heartfield and Raoul Hausmann in Berlin, Kurt Schwitters in Hannover, André Breton and his growing...
...later, 60,000 of them were dead or wounded, and the cries of abandoned men were heard rising from no man's land for days afterward. The Somme offensive was the greatest military slaughter in history. The Edwardian vocabulary of war, with its ritual chants of "sacrifice," "honor," "comradeship," "red/Sweet wine of youth" (meaning blood), was impotent to describe the massacre of a generation. Trench warfare was all the more incomprehensible because those who were in it had inherited a tradition of war as sport. Indeed, at the Somme attack, an officer named Nevill, of the 8th East Surreys...