Word: warriorism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...children to private schools, owned a luxurious country house, employed several servants, and enthusiastically supported his wife's hobby of raising cocker spaniels. A staunch, and early, opponent of racial discrimination he nevertheless swam at the exclusively white Cold Spring Harbor Club, where he enjoyed the company of cold warrior brothers Allen and John Foster Dulles, whose views on practically every subject were diametrically opposed...
...WOMAN WARRIOR...
...their children. They are likely to find the old ways and old language excess baggage, especially if their adopted homeland is the U.S., where the race is to the swift and the adaptable. Thus a heritage of centuries can die in a generation of embarrassed silence. The Woman Warrior gives that silence a voice...
...tells the girl about Fu Mu Lan, a legendary woman warrior. The daughter mystically imagines herself undergoing 15 years of martial training, raising a peasant army of millions and deposing a cruel emperor. The role does not fit her new reality: "To avenge my family, I'd have to storm across China to take back our farm from the Communists; I'd have to rage across the United States and take back the laundry in New York and the one in California." There are other reasons why the old customs cannot be embraced. She will not endure...
Though it is drenched in alienation, The Woman Warrior never whines. Author Kingston avoids rhetoric for a wealth of detail-old customs and legends, the feel of Chinese enclaves transported to the California of her childhood. Even at their most poignant, her stories sing. Thousands of books have bubbled up out of the American melting pot. This should be one of those that will be remembered. Paul Gray