Word: warriorism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Well, I mean to say, the part is played by a girl. Actually, the one that I really love is not a tenor. It happens to be the bass, Maometto the terrible Turk. Neo-cle, who is from my country, he's a Greek and is a brave warrior that my father wants me to marry. She - uh, he - uh, it is played by Shirley Verrett. So it is no wonder that I prefer Maometto, who is played by Gus Diaz, with a gold lame costume and shoes that curl up at the toes. It makes a big difference...
...imagines the brush slashing down and up like a sword as it described the pair of sharply angular branches that project to the left of the tree. And so it probably did; for the painter, Kaihō Yūshō (1533-1615) was the son of a warrior family, raised in a Zen monastery and reputedly a great swordsman. There could have been very little difference between the reflexes that drove the blade and those that aimed the brush...
...cult of austerity the essence of which lay in the tea ceremony: the rough bowl, the unpainted wooden panel, the natural stone which, in manifesting sabi (simplicity or emptiness), embodied the ideals of the samurai class by repeating, in the aesthetic sphere, the discipline and frugality of a warrior's life...
...simpler projects on a smaller screen. The subject and scope of the Southeast Asian conflict are too large for such narrow-gauge examination. Unhappily, the war has not yet finished exacting its terrible penalties and distortions. Like so many before it, the procrustean Hearts and Minds began as a warrior; it ends as a casualty...
...father's death, rose early. Eight different kinds of clay were ceremonially applied to various parts of his body. After a ritual bathing with holy water, he was sprinkled with clarified butter, milk, curd and honey by representatives of the four traditional Hindu castes: a Brahman, a warrior, a merchant and an Untouchable. Only then was Birendra-also known as the King of Kings, the Five Times Godly, the Valorous Warrior, the Divine Emperor and the reincarnation of Vishnu, god of preservation-ready to be crowned...