Word: warriorism
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...message. Haley learned about his earliest ancestors from an elderly Gambian griot (storyteller), a living repository of oral history who sat him down in the tiny village of Juffure and recited for him the centuries-old saga of his West African clan dating back seven generations to the warrior Kunta Kinte. Modern Americans learned about Haley's lineage in much the same way?huddled in a semicircle in their living rooms around that electronic-age griot, the television...
...lead drummer (Junior Tshabalala) plays with galvanic fervor and propels the best number in the show, a warrior dance into a Dionysian frenzy. The cast appears to be having the best time of its urban life. It's a pity the pickets cannot see the show. T.E.K...
...Four"* accused of attempting to seize power after Mao's death last September, Chiang Ch'ing is pictured as a scheming empress of days long past. Alternatively she is depicted as a treacherous snake in woman's dress, a harridan spitting venom and a wily warrior wielding a spiked club. Perhaps most shocking to the puritanical Chinese are caricatures of Chiang Ch'ing as a trollop. In one of many variants on this theme, she is shown reclining on a divan decorated with dollar signs, her skirt hiked up, while two of her sycophants nibble...
...WOMAN WARRIOR by Maxine Hong Kingston. A brilliant employment of fictional techniques to describe the cultural shocks of growing up as a Chinese American in California...
Brzezinski has long been regarded as a hard-liner toward the Communists, yet he is far from a reflex cold warrior. He favors detente with Moscow but recommends greater caution and patience−and sometimes toughness−when negotiating with the Kremlin. Brzezinski also urges that the balance of power relationship with the Communist world no longer receive top priority. He calls for increased attention to the alliances with Western Europe and Japan, problems of the developing countries and global concerns like the environment and food supplies...