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...tragedy of Achilles is partially his bitter discovery that a man cannot will his own honor. He could neither ignore martial society nor realize his vision. The world could not please him, and it could not save him because it could not share his vision. To choose honor is to choose death...
...warning billboards. Keeping them there will be another matter, troopers or no. Two weeks ago, buckshot was fired into the kitchen of the Rev. Raymond Cook, a leader of the city's small antispeed-trap, anti-Dawson clique. Maddox hinted that he would declare martial law, but backed off when he learned from state investigators that there was at least a possibility that the crusading Cook may have fired the shots himself to bring the law down on Dawson...
...martial tone, that quotation is not an excerpt from the maxims of Chairman Mao or Che Guevara's advice to guerrillas. It is a sample from the conventional wisdom of A Checklist for Plant Security, a 16-page pamphlet published by the National Association of Manufacturers and distributed to 250,000 businessmen. Its militant, military style is a direct response to the disturbing fact that U.S. business is now under siege-the target of a multipronged assault by forces ranging from outside political protesters to embezzling employees...
Marital or Martial...
...husband's decision, what right does she have to trespass? Or do his marital affairs affect his martial affairs...