Word: warriorism
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...winning attention; and the minorities grow increasingly jealous and imitative of one another's extremism. "We've tossed a few crumbs in the middle of millions of the nation's people and said, 'Folks, you fight for it and may the best man win,' " says one high-ranking poverty warrior. "That's a disgrace." Nonetheless, for all its faults, the War on Poverty has at least dramatized the plight of the poor to the rest of America...
Lorenz points out that men and rats share the dubious distinction of being the only carnivores with no innate inhibitions against attacking members of their own species. Early man was too weak to do so. But as he developed weapons, he learned to cherish the "warrior virtues" of truculent masculinity and pleasure in dominating others. Though he also developed moral restraints against killing, these are not natural and tend to collapse under stress. Seeking a really nonviolent community, anthropologists point with hope to the peace-loving pygmies of the Ituri rain forest in the Congo. Unlike other men, those "primitives...
Dominic Meiman is Finn the Irish king. Although Finn is supposed to be a somewhat older fellow, Meiman strikes me as a little too decrepit for a warrior king...
Most of his press colleagues still disagree with Levin. Evening News Columnist Kenneth Allsop suggested that "this fire-eating warrior" of the press "ought to volunteer for a suicide squad and parachute into Viet Nam." But one barometer of popular opinion, the Daily Mirror, which heretofore had had almost nothing kind to say about the U.S. in Viet Nam, last week paid tribute in a front-page editorial to the courage of U.S. troops...
...distinction between major and minor arts. Anything from a horse bit to a box top was seen as an object of beauty, while each bronze affirmed in subtle ways the flavor of its region. Where Sparta reigned, simplicity and self-discipline are powerfully reflected in the lancet-eyed Laconian warrior whose body and thoughts alike are swathed in a foreboding cloak...