Word: soldierism
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...interests appear to have grown soggy with much sitting around sloppy cafe tables in the so-called Latin (it should be called American) quarter of Paris. He has chosen to immortalize the semi-humorous love tragedy of an insatiable young English War widow and an unmanned U. S. soldier. His title is borrowed from Ecclesiastes; his motto about "a lost generation, is from Gertrude Stein; his widow Lady Brett Ashley, from Michael Arlen's Green Hat. She is repeatedly called "a nice piece," and "a good chap." She has a grim wit and not a shred of reticence The hero...
Late in the film “Innocent Voices,” the 12-year-old main character waits on his knees to be executed by U.S.-trained government soldiers. Just before our young hero is shot, the country’s leftist guerillas attack and the boy is saved.Before that happens, though, a soldier shoots another boy in the back of the head, and the camera lingers on him as he falls forward, breaking film conventions against showing violence against children on-screen.“Innocent Voices,” Mexico’s official submission...
...Energy fed dance—by the third song even the navel-gazers tapped their toes. The better three of them in front of me traded elbow nudges and head nods. One wore white, the other black, and the third stepped back as if to judge. A duel ensued.The soldier in black stood a few inches taller. She churned her arms, dropped her head and shook it side-to-side when the notes from “It’s 5!” charged off the stage, horns ablaze. Her hands shot upward with the high notes...
...case, says Plante, when new rules come down, he will soldier on. His entry into this line of consulting, he recalls, was a little like being an Army reservist: "They called: 'You're a shrink. You're Catholic. You can help us.' How do you say no?" And he notes that "there are a lot of things we don't agree with in the church, but we still identify as Catholic...
...bait-and-switch that, imperceptibly at first, draws the reader into the emotional realm of the soldier. Gingerly, he piques our interest with funny anecdotes and moments of suspense...