Word: warriorism
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...world's highest living standards, German-speaking Liechtenstein is in every happy sense a have-not nation: it has no unemployment, slums, Communists, crime, TV or radio station, airports, divorces or billboards. Neutral in both world wars, it has had no soldiers since 1939, when the only remaining warrior died in bed. Its maximum income tax rate is 10%; corporate taxes are so liberal that more than 2,000 foreign firms have registered headquarters in Vaduz. While it is a constitutional democracy, Liechtenstein virtually dispenses with politics. There are two parties, known as the Reds and the Blacks...
Ghostly Feet. In scope and detail, Foot's Bevan bears comparison with Churchill's Memoirs: the central figure is set against a wide and populous political landscape; biography becomes history. Churchill, of course, is all grandeur and the tragedy of nations; Bevan was a class warrior, and his finest hour, like Socialism's, was never to come. But as near as may be-though he has been dead three years-this is Sevan's own brief. It is a sort of ghost-written book, with Foot as ghost, for Biographer Foot was not only a close...
...imported hip-swinging was wasted on the musicians of the NHK. For 36 years they had served Germanic masters, who stylistically frown on conducting exertions more noticeable than an occasional swing of the index finger. The sight of the flailing young conductor reminded a critic of "a samurai warrior leading his men to battle." Soon the NHK ranks were brewing a mutiny. When the musicians said "Ozawa's full of air and showmanship, but little that's real art," he demanded apologies. Instead, he got fired. Refusing to believe his bad luck, Ozawa went to the concert hall...
...just possible that the President did not know what he was getting into when he started the book. Once during a lunch with friends, he asked one of the wives present: "What have you been reading?" Answer: Le Repos du Guer-rier (The Warrior's Rest). Apparently thinking it a military tome, the President said eagerly: "Ah, tres bien. Could you lend it to me?" Actually, the book, whose movie version starred Brigitte Bardot, was a sultry item dealing more with conquests in the bedroom than on the battlefield...
...Braggart Warrior, presented by the Harvard Dramatic Club, begins in Loeb Drama Center...