Word: warriorism
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...Hospital to console victims, inspecting loyalist redoubts, embracing fellow refugees as if the end had come. Sometimes it almost did: 90 seconds after an Arafat visit in the district of Al Zahriyeh, a shell whooshed in and destroyed the spot on which he had been standing. Nonetheless, the grizzled warrior vowed to keep fighting. "I cannot leave while my volunteers are facing death daily," Arafat said. "I am not a President. I am a freedom fighter...
Kennedy's tenure was littered with messy crises-in Laos, Cuba, the Congo, Latin America, Algeria, Viet Nam and Berlin-and his record in dealing with them is decidedly uneven. Revisionists like to say that Kennedy was a cold warrior who sought confrontation, but in the early '60s, the Soviets busied themselves around the world in ways that no American President could ignore...
...Francisco, the Trocadero Transfer club's biggest party of the year will be a three-day bash based on Road Warrior, an Australian film that deals with the survivors of a nuclear attack. A cheerier event will be the Beaux Arts Ball, revived after some 50 years, to raise funds to establish a department of architecture and design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern...
More recently, the Aussie market in America has diversified, featuring futuristic thrillers like Mad Max and The Road Warrior, as well as films depicting current Australian culture. This summer, for instance, Puberty Blues, with its raw portrayal of a distinctly Australian teenage-surfer subculture, arrived on the scene...
After its founding in Cairo in 1017, the enigmatic movement gradually spread to the Levant. Eventually it entrenched itself in particular in the heart of the Chouf, overlooking Beirut. During the 17th century an aristocratic Kurdish warrior clan, the Jumblatts (the name means heart of steel), joined the Druze and eventually became one of the group's two dominant families. At about the same time, the Druze formed an alliance with the Maronite Christians under the leadership of a Druze emir. In the 19th century, the aggressively ascendant Maronites sought to consolidate their power over Lebanon. Alarmed, the Druze...