Word: soldierism
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...offers a continuing metaphor for their use. And its moral proved true in the collapsed tunnels of Dura-Europos: among the Roman bodies, James spied one corpse set aside from the rest, which wore differing armor and carried a jade-hilted sword. This was a fallen Persian soldier, James concludes, also asphyxiated by the gas. The warrior who released the poison very likely succumbed...
...Soldier of the Great War, by Mark Helprin One of my favorite books, which I'm rereading. This gorgeous tale unfolds in Umbria as an old man walks--for three days--with a young boy and recounts his experiences in World War I, a war that the boy knows nothing about. The language is exquisite, the imagery powerful, and funny...
...poster, she stands in full combat attire with gun raised, unknowingly evoking an image of Fairey’s own in which he depicts a combat-ready soldier. “I actually didn’t find out where [the Obama image] came from...until I tried to make it myself,” Morrissey says. “I actually don’t think that a lot of people know where it came from. I think a lot of people think that it was created by the campaign for the campaign. It’s the work...
...more, they are uniformly and oppressively good. The novel opens with the perspective of Corporal Robert Leavitt, father of the as-yet-unborn Termite (the portions that feature Leavitt occur on the same days as the other perspectives, but nine years before). Leavitt is an American soldier in South Korea who is devoted to his wife (read: does not have sex with prostitutes), and, ultimately, gives his life to protect a young Korean mother and her blind child from American fire. Lark and Termite are half-siblings through their mother, who dies before the narrative begins. Though 17, and just...
...last week that for the first time, Hamas has greater political support than Fatah across the West Bank and Gaza and would win any election that were held right now. Aides to Abbas are reportedly concerned that an Israel-Hamas deal to secure the release of the captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in Gaza could involve releasing the Hamas parliamentarians in Israeli detention. The Palestinian legislature is unable to meet because Israel holds those lawmakers. If it were able to convene, Hamas would remain the majority party...