Word: warriorism
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...cathedral was built by a warrior-prince named Andrei Bogoliubsky in 1158. Prince Andrei, seeking to wrest power from the boyars and make Vladimir instead of Kiev the capital of Russia, intended that the cathedral would be not only a metropolitan see but the finest jewel in his kingdom. He lavished much of his treasury on it, importing European architects, stonemasons and carvers as well as Byzantine painters and craftsmen. Though Prince Andrei failed in his fight against the boyars, who succeeded in murdering him in 1174, his majestic monument stood, only to be destroyed by fire a few years...
GREENPORT, L.I. Summer Playhouse. Adam and Eve face newlywed adjustments, a warrior must choose between his love and a tiger, and a chimney sweep is transformed into a movie star in The Apple Tree, three episodes with music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, the team who did Fiddler on the Roof...
Until last year, Hayakawa seemed quite unlikely to turn into a campus warrior. The Canadian-born son of a Japanese immigrant importer, he came to the U.S. for graduate study and taught college English in Chicago, where he also wrote a jazz column for a Negro newspaper. In 1941, he became a famous popularizer of semantics with his bestseller Language in Action. At S.F. State, which he joined in 1955, he was a part-time professor with no administrative experience...
...missiles halfway to Cuba-and another rising would fail, until a mood of fatalism set in and the old warlike mockery became heavily larded with cries of lament and self-pity: "Poor Wexford, stript naked, hangs high on the cross,/With her heart pierced by traitors and slaves." The warrior, the lugubrious drunk and the ironist all took up residence in the same skull...
...sexual attraction. To him, initiation into all-male groups like fraternities resembles courtship: neophytes are wooed and chosen with the same meticulous care as mates. Investiture into a masculine order-an army unit or the Masons-is like marriage, which explains in part the thread that binds the warrior to his buddy. At its least edifying, says Tiger, the male bond unites homosexuals-men whose "eagerness to attract other males may as clearly betray a craving for male bonds as a confusion about sexual identity and the desire to be female...