Word: warriorism
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...entirely like the movement he summoned into shape. The New Rightists drew their strength from the fast-growing Sunbelt states of the South and the West. Their hero was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater. Richard Nixon did not excite them. Forget for a moment his impeccable credentials as a cold warrior. He had spent eight years as Vice President to the pliant Dwight Eisenhower, a man the Old Right had never entirely forgiven for winning the 1952 G.O.P. nomination away from their longtime hero, Ohio Senator Robert Taft...
There are sentimental reasons too to keep them around. We go back a long way--bears and humans. The word berserk, for example, means "dressed in a bearskin" and comes from the ancient Scandinavian warrior custom of running around and pretending to be one. Paleolithic Europeans may have worshipped bears; at least a cavern discovered last year in southern France featured a bear skull, "placed on a large rock set in the middle of a gallery against a backdrop of bear paintings." Besides, wouldn't it be kind of sad if the only vestige of Ursus horribilis were some...
...ANGELES--Reprising his role as Snake Plissken from the 1981 cult hit "Escape From New York," Kurt Russell returns to the screen for another admirable portrayal of the moody but principled warrior. But despite Russell's acting excellence, the film as a whole still leaves a little to be desired: you won't be hankering to "escape from the movie theater," but you won't come away with this film on your list of the 10 best summer flicks...
HOWIE VOGEL, 47; NEW YORK CITY; social worker A self-proclaimed "cultural warrior," he spent 15 years homeless, in and out of mental-health institutions. As the executive director of Double Trouble, he's on the other side of the examining table. Each year the 12-step program aids hundreds of people who are carrying the dual burden of psychiatric illness and narcotics addiction. To Vogel those he counsels are "not just patients but people I actually identify with...
...traditional Russian bylina, or folk epic, a dashing warrior in shining armor rescues the good Czar from the evil influence of his scheming boyars. Much the same sort of tale seemed to be unfolding as a rapid-fire Kremlin drama last week. It began on Tuesday, two days after the initial round of the presidential elections in which retired Lieut. General Alexander Lebed made a surprisingly strong third-place finish and Boris Yeltsin came in first. In Yeltsin's office that day, Lebed, 46, a hero in a dark business suit, perched stiffly on the edge of an ornate chair...