Word: warriorism
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According to ancient doctrine, Hirohito is the 124th direct descendant of Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess. All his childhood was a drill in the warrior-centered Shinto religion. When he was eleven, his grandfather, the Emperor, died, and General Nogi, one of Hirohito's beloved tutors, gave him a final traumatic lesson in Shinto. After sitting with him for more than three hours and reviewing the boy's studies, the old general went home to his wife. First, the couple purified themselves in Shinto rites. Then the general took a dagger, dispatched his wife, and eviscerated himself...
...Warrior Virtues. Man, in Lorenz' opinion, is one of the species most likely to fail for this reason. Man's specific problem, as he sees it, is that in the state of nature he was not a very aggressive animal. On the contrary, it was so hard for one primitive man to kill another that nature never bothered to develop an instinctual safeguard against homicide. Then all at once, with the aid of his powerful brain, man discovered weapons; and with the aid of weapons a creature created for flight was abruptly transformed into a creature equipped...
...convention scramble, he has a pretty wife, eight attractive children,* and no reluctance to use them as political assets. Samuels stretched his announcement into a swinging two-day foray by chartered plane to Washington and six New York State cities, freely dispensing food, wine and happy-warrior predictions of victory. Inevitably, reporters christened his effort "the champagne campaign...
...tone of his research is best expressed in the image of a befeathered savage dancer wearing sneakers. Without straining for irony, Gaisseau notes inching progress in New Guinea, where one happy warrior of the cannibalistic Kuku-Kuku tribe is flown away to face murder charges; his kinsmen on the ground wear human hands as talismans, smoke the bodies of their honored dead and lug them around like dolls...
Most congressional criticism of the federal anti-poverty program sounds bland and almost timid compared with Saul David Alinsky's views on the subject. Alinsky is a free-lance anti-poverty warrior and self-styled "professional radical" who has spent 27 of his 57 years in the business. "He thinks," says an OEO official, "that he owns the poor." To which Alinsky replies that the Administration program is "the greatest feeding trough that has come along for the welfare industry in years." Ridiculing the paper-sifting public-welfare bureaucracy, he once snorted: "If the road to hell is paved...