Word: slaying
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...ritual was staged again and again a decade ago. The stadium would fill with cheering Africans. The band would play a tattoo. Schoolchildren would scramble forward to slay papier-mâché dragons representing poverty, ignorance and disease. Fireworks would ignite the southern sky. At midnight a throaty cheer of "Uhuru!" (Swahili for "freedom") or "Kwacha!" ("dawn" in Bemba and Nyanja) would shake the ground as the flag of the colonial power was lowered and the colors of the new nation raised...
...problem with Miller's version is that it is too single-minded. In his program notes, he quotes three sources to explain his interpretation. The first, a selection from Frazer's Golden Bough, describes a mythic religion in which the priest-king, to gain his office, must slay the old priest-king, and then in turn be on his guard against his successor, who will slay him. The second, from Freud's Totem and Taboo, relates the phenomenon of the young men in the primal horde, who, after destroying the totem/father, whom they perceive as an obstacle to sexual fulfillment...
From the beginning, the helpful Kee has rather obviously been the key to Greg's survival. Does Flynn intend to reassert sadly that man seems destined to slay his saviors? Or is he bypassing salvation theology altogether and desperately endorsing an existential wager? "Do you ever think," Greg scrawls at the last, "that this life is madness, that this world is a prison, and that if you gave up hope you would be free...
...sicker than the men he defended for staying home. In a dossier compiled for the FAA, Government psychiatrists labeled the famous criminal lawyer "dangerous" and "irresponsible." "He collects heads," said one. "He's a young rebel, a David. His role in life is to slay Goliaths." Bailey sprang to the counter-analysis. "General paranoia," he concluded. "If they said I was dangerous and irresponsible, they better prepare to defend...
...learn from history are condemned to repeat it. Plainly, he has begun to fear the dangerous economic consequences of recession. He and several major aides lately have sounded as if they were trying to raise expectations-and public pressure-for easier money, and simultaneously to use the jawbone to slay the stock market's bears...