Word: warriorism
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...apple during the choruses to keep his throat clear) sang an inspired Otello. This is what comes across on the CD: From the Esultate which marks his entry in the storm-tossed first act to his dying embrace of the martyred Desdemona, Pavarotti sings with the passion of the warrior who boils with jealousy. His lyrical voice is audibly more at ease in passages such as the love duet at the end of the first act, but he doesn't shrink from the over-bearing machismo that, in Otello, explodes at various intervals...
Purged of moral compunctions, Tyson is what scholars of the blood sport call a pure fighter. This is atavistic manhood, stripped of all weapons but fists, guile and will. A man-beast-machine: hunter, warrior, conqueror, terminator. Even lover. The other guy in the ring is Tyson's partner -- a heavy date -- as well as an opponent; Iron Mike must find the man's rhythms, whims, indulgences, weak spots. A fight with Tyson at his physical and emotional peak is like a brisk courtship that ends in slaughter...
...laudatory epithets of Army magazine aside, the administration's warriors are not the moral superiors of Sherman and Oppenheimer. They are the best that the warrior bureaucracy can produce and nothing more...
...Stone's standards of historiography, that might be enough to prove that, say, Johnson was a restrained leader saddled with onerous commitments from a hardline predecessor. At the very least, how on earth did the conspirators know they were bringing in someone who would be more of a Cold Warrior or, indeed, be in any way different from Kennedy...
Saddled with such staffers, and with the rhetorical justifications of any number of Cold Warrior speeches by Kennedy, Johnson found himself haunted--and his domestic agenda threatened--by the Kennedy legacy in Indochina. "I left the woman I really loved--the Great Society--in order to get involved with that bitch of a war on the other side of the world," Johnson said after he had escalated the disaster...