Word: warriorism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both Antony and Cleopatra will be more intelligible in comparison with the characters of the Hiad, especially Achilles. The Hiad's hero strives to live life intensely in a brilliant world without falsifying his self-esteem. He is finely aware of what is owed to the self as warrior, yet he attempts to dissolve this self in allegiance to something greater. He scorns the esteem of men, for the honor which only the gods can confide. He will have honor from Zeus. His vision is the expression of his inner gloriousness. The Hiad presents us with two central heroic requirements...
...though legal discrimination no longer exists. Whites have accepted black school enrollments up to 22% without much fuss, but when desegregation orders raise black representation to at least 66% in September, those whites who can afford the $400-a-year tuition will doubtless pour into the private cement-block Warrior Academy. One young teacher there explains: "There's so much low intelligence among the blacks...
Prophets and Poets. Also from Africa came a tribal tradition of the poet as wiseman and prophet, interpreter of the past and seer of the future. According to Poet Nikki Giovanni: "There is no difference between the warrior, the poet, and the people. Like Stokely is a poet and so is Rap Brown...
...possessed." More important, states swollen by conquest can support a leisure class without which, the author maintains, science and the arts might never have arisen. He points out that technological progress makes its greatest strides under the prod of war, from the stirrup designed by 2nd century Asian warrior horsemen to the sophisticated creations of the last two world wars. From the 1916 tank evolved the bulldozing tractor. World War II was a veritable cornucopia: the first aerosol bomb, radar, the jet aircraft engine, and the ballistic missiles that, a scant generation later, took man to the moon...
...salesman is a more pallid?but also more successful?descendant of two other Japanese prototypes. One was the swashbuckling wako, or warrior-trader, who began plundering Asia as early as the 14th century. The second was the soldier-bureaucrat who went to war a generation ago to develop a "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," stretching from Manchuria to Burma. His slogan was "Asia for the Asiatics," but his purpose was really to furnish Japan's factories not only with raw materials but also with vast markets for their goods. Today the Japanese have come closer to establishing an informal...