Word: warriorism
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...usual historical novel is notoriously long on panoply and pomp. In this spare but sturdy tale, young (22) First-Novelist Cecelia Holland cuts away the familiar embroideries and tells the story of a wandering warrior-knight who rights for pay in the feudal feuds of llth century Europe, winds up under William the Conqueror in the thick of the slaughter at Hastings. Author Holland, who writes history as if her hero were watching it happen, en-capsules the medieval military mind: brash as plunder, elemental as blood...
...approach is valid but Olivier overworks it, for his portrayal appears geared primarily to the task of impersonating a Negro. In his accomplished mimicry, there is often too much mammy singer, too little inner man. This lithe warrior defies tepid theatrical conventions, only to emerge as a modern stereotype, quick to violence and so infatuated with himself that his cue for murder seems to be wounded animal pride, not unhinging grief. He has size without tragic stature, brute strength and magnetism without "a constant, loving, noble nature." His ultimate downfall shrinks almost to the level of a squalid domestic intrigue...
Whattagay this Barlow is, Except that he's a little too clumsy and stumbly and naïve, he is you and me. He is simple irreverant, and romantic - an honest warrior against the overwhelming force of the big people. And Robert Morse pulls it off perfectly; he writes poetry (They tell me, Francis Hinsley,/They tell me you were hung/With red protruding eyeballs/And black protruding tongue...) and does lots of things we've all--well, some of us have--been tempted to do, like kissing the breast of a piece of sculpture...
Herdar Freiburg. $19. When Troy fell 3,000 years ago, the warrior Odysseus, king of Ithaca, set sail for home. The direct route was only 550 miles, but Odysseus was b'own all over the Mediterranean, took te'n years to reach his native land. Homer first recorded the voyagers' adventures in his epic poem The Odyssey. Now Photographer Erich Lessing has trained his camera on the very scenes that may have met the voyagers' astonished eyes: the shores of Djerba, off the Tunisian Coast, where Odysseus-here given his Roman name of Ulysses-tarried among...
Author Josephy offers one final, even more disillusioning fact: despite all his bullet nicks and his sadly beautiful words, Chief Joseph was not a warrior at heart. During the Nez Perce war, he left most of the fighting to his subchiefs. He looked after the women, children and a herd of horses...