Word: warriorism
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...decades of studying war, teaching military men and listening to them. Like his 1976 work The Face of Battle, his new book is alive with sudden, unexpected details and delights of knowledge -- a treatise, for example, on how to make a composite bow, that revolutionary asset of the horse warrior; a detour into the institutionalized vengeance of Maori warmaking; or a splendid interlude on the effects of geography on war, including a disquisition on why Adrianople, Edirne in modern Turkey, has been the most fought-over place in the world (it stands at the land bridge between Europe and Asia...
...Keegan's charms has always been his independence, his sometimes brusque contempt for the merely academic: "How blinkered social scientists are to the importance of temperament," he remarks while discussing the attractions of warrior life and military culture. "I am tempted, after a lifetime's acquaintance with the British army, to argue that some men can be nothing but soldiers...
...were born after the 1960 presidential campaign, seem to have no clear picture of the man or his times. Camelot, the myth created by his wife and court after the assassination, means almost nothing to them. The political revisionism that followed, portraying Kennedy as a self- serving cold warrior, means little more to them because they know almost nothing of the history that was being so energetically revised...
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "Craig's Wife" at 5:30p.m. A portrait of a housewife who walls herselfup, brick by brick, in a tomb of her own making."Devil in the Flesh" at 7:30 p.m.Recollections of the young warrior who, during theArmistice celebrations in 1918, follows hisgirlfriend's funeral at a distance. "Night ofthe Hunter" at 10 p.m. Portrayal of the ordeal anunscrupulous man inflicts on two children in orderto find where their deceased father has hidden...
...Crimson started off the game on a quick note. At the 37:51 mark, freshman T.J. Carella passed a free kick to sophomore Chris Wojcik. Surprisingly, a rift in the Warrior wall opened, and Wojcik gladly booted the ball into the net for a 1-0 lead...