Word: warriorism
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...invisible. It showed its strength in the guardians at the gates of American painting history. Copley and Benjamin West, who studied a new breed of men with fresh eyes. When West first saw the famed Apollo Belvedere in Rome, he cried out: "My God, how like a Mohawk warrior!" And as John Adams said in describing Copley's immortal gallery of founding fathers: "You can scarcely help discoursing with them, asking questions and receiving answers...
...HAPPY WARRIOR (320 pp.)-Emily Smith Warner- Doubleday...
...month before Al had lost a presidential election in which Prohibition, religious bigotry and snobbery were big issues. Now the trunks of his successor were piled in the hall, the baggage of the same Franklin D. Roosevelt who had nominated him for the presidency and dubbed him "the happy warrior." Prohibition was the law of the land, but Al called for a bottle of champagne, anointed F.D.R.'s trunks and intoned to his absent friend: "Now, Frank, if you want a drink, you will know where to find...
...would have appreciated it. But not too many years later. Al was pouring verbal vitriol on an F.D.R. whom he had come to see as an enemy of U.S. institutions. Two recent books make this understandable, though neither one succeeds in really pinning down its man. The Happy Warrior, by Emily Smith Warner, is so obviously a daughter's accolade that one of the most colorful politicians in U.S. history can scarcely be seen through the swaddling layers of worshipfulness. Yet something of his genuineness, of his dedication to the job of government, comes through. He was a Tammany...
...BubbleGum Candidate."Once the decision was made, the old warrior's battle gorge began to rise. "I'm getting," he says of Opponent Joe Clark, "so I hate that guy's guts." Chugging around in his Ford station wagon, Duff has covered some 6,000 miles in his campaign, plans another 10,000 before Nov. 6. ("Damn, I've never done anything like this before.") To Jim Duff, the biggest issue in the 1956 elections is peace. "For anyone to think that Stevenson could replace Eisenhower as the keeper of the peace," he tells his audiences...