Word: warlord
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shiffer also underscores Sharon's frequent and close meetings with Bashir Gemayel, the Christian Maronite warlord who was assassinated only nine days before his scheduled inauguration as Lebanese President in September 1982. In Shiffer's account, Bashir asks Sharon if Israel would object to the Lebanese sending in bulldozers to flatten "the built-up areas," four weeks before the massacres at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps near Beirut. Sharon's reply: "This is not our business...
...mystic and politician." Three years after he joined parliament in 1946, Jumblatt formed the Progressive Socialist Party, and in the years that followed, he gave his committed support to the cause of Arab nationalism. By 1975 Jumblatt had founded the Lebanese National Movement and established himself as pre-eminent warlord of the Lebanese left. In the course of his political career, he ruled four ministries and helped to topple two Presidents. He also strongly opposed the entry of Syrian forces into Lebanon in 1976. When Jumblatt was assassinated in March 1977, the hereditary mantle fell to his son Walid...
...difference between the Chinese and Japanese ideals of exalted beauty: the former based on symmetry and minute gradations of fixed etiquette, the latter on irregularity and "natural" grace. Sen No Rikyu (1521-91), greatest of the tea masters, established chanoyu as a kind of psychic enclave in which warlord, samurai, priest and scholar could shed the burdens of rank and power by refreshing themselves at the well of nature. A developed Japanese form of Rousseau's "natural man," living in harmony with a world he has not made, is to be found in the teahouse and the culture...
...some cases only by their uniforms, are battling for control of the country. Foreign opportunists skirmish for treasure. And China's peasants, as always, work, sweat and starve. Malcolm Bosse's novel re-creates the epoch and peoples it with an indelible cast, including a rising warlord named Chiang Kai-shek and a budding revolutionary called Mao Tse-tung...
...bandits. Vera Rogacheva, a beautiful White Russian, attempts to escape her future by surviving with the help of sex and guile. Tang, a Chinese general, still observes the ancient code of honor in a world where that concept has little place. As richly textured as a tapestry, The Warlord captures both the essence of Asia and the sweeping panorama of a people trapped between the ancient grinding forces of hollow tradition and heartless change...