Word: warriorism
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...deep inner-conflict and shades of gray that marked the roles of Bud White and Jeffrey Wigand, Crowe is given the opportunity here to display a white-hot intensity and impressive physicalitynever, not even for a nanosecond, do we fail to believe that he is every inch a Roman warrior. I've almost no doubt that Crowe, ever a chameleon, is capable of playing any role in Gladiator he is the ultimate action hero, dispensing with cheap one-liners in favor of good, old-fashioned brute force...
...young white Harvard men can do when they put their minds to it (Column, April 21). Let us relive that wonderful column, reminiscent of the best Orientalist days of Rudyard Kipling and James Clavell: "It looks like the Bushido spirit is alive and well. (Bushido refers to the Japanese warrior ethic.) Based on the recent public debate surrounding the portrayal of minorities in the media, it is not clear whether the use of the word is appropriate…[But] bushido does invoke images of strength and combat, not math or science. Think samurai, not hairless. So, the Asian American...
...maverick in his science--he didn't initially accept DNA as heredity's master molecule--and a polemical writer (Science and Survival, The Closing Circle), he won 200,000 votes in the 1980 presidential race on the eco-based Citizens' Party ticket. At 82, he remains an active warrior for the environment...
...maybe boys are naturally violent anyway - ceremonially aggressive. Maybe they just need rites of passage. Once in the '80s, when I spent time in Kenya, I was traveling with a great naturalist/conservationist named David Western. We came upon a Masai orpul - that is, a gathering of six young warriors in the forest, a ritual feast in which they slaughtered one of their precious cows (a rare occasion) and settled down to eating the entire beast, right down to horns and hooves. They had been at it a day or two, and were disgustingly surrounded by gnawed ribs and a boiling...
...just after Easter, some Washington kid who was either a young warrior out to prove himself, or else merely an angry boy like me - or both, perhaps - has let fly, not with rocks but with 9 mm bullets, at the edge of the National Zoo, and wounded seven children at the end of a traditional African-American family...