Word: warriorism
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...researching news that city editors wouldn't print. He yearned for a job that wouldn't ask him to soften his view, to be a promoter or a salesman; a job in which he would be totally responsible for all his misdeeds. He longed to be a guerrilla warrior. But offering a "good left opposition" inside the New Deal was a thing of the remote past; by the Haunted Fifties, America's left hand shrunk like a fried bacon strip. America had become a dinosaur with huge tail and tiny head. Our natural hostility to "the others," says he, ballooned...
Paul Buck's "Remembrance of Themes Past" is a case in point. Former Dean of the Faculty, Provost, and co-chairman of the Committee on General Education which produced the Redbook, he was an ardent warrior for improved undergraduate education in the forties and early fifties. But Buck the engaged combattant has become the retired soldier wistfully retelling the pasts' battles. He concludes by saying "I believe that a truly liberal education for today and tomorrow will combine a program of general education, a program of specialism [departmental education], and a collegiate way of living [a house system...
...Gospels say nothing about Jesus' sexuality? One reason, Driver suggests, may be that Christ himself is the "great neutralizer" of the religious meaning of sex. In other literature of saviour figures and spiritual heroes, the protagonist is either "a champion of sexual renewal or a warrior against the 'demonic' sexual force." Jesus, even though he condemned sexual transgression, saw sex in itself neither as a barrier in the way of salvation nor as a condition of spiritual blessedness. He accepted it as a fact of life-not as something subject to either divine or demonic power...
Died. Billy Bowlegs III, 103, patriarch of Florida's 1,500 surviving Seminole Indians, whose stories of the old warrior days and Everglade hunter's skill (nine deer in a single day) made him both a prime source for historians and a favorite guide for such sportsmen as Henry Ford and Thomas Edison; on the reservation near Brighton...
...Royal Horse Guards trumpeter sounded the Last Post, its plaintive notes ascending and echoing round the dome itself. In answer, from across the cathedral, came the bugle call of Reveille played by a Royal Irish Hussar, a hearty and heartening last trump that would have stirred the old warrior's blood...