Word: warriorism
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...cemetery will be filled with the nation's honored dead. Before that time, presumably, an Unknown Soldier of World War II will be interred beside his older brother-in-arms. Congress has authorized such a burial, but last week, ten years after the war, no unknown warrior had been selected, and the Army Quartermaster's Office was still "coordinating" its plans...
...this month, President Carlos Castillo Armas will make a state visit to Washington and reap some of the honor due him as the doughty little warrior who kicked a pro-Communist government out of Guatemala. Since that mid-1954 burst of glory, he has managed to survive in the face of drought, plots and a sputtering of accusations (TIME, Aug. 22). But last week, as he made plans to depart, his prestige was dipping. Main reasons: resentment over ham-handed measures by his police, and a hard-to-ignore smell of corruption...
...play's French title is The Trojan War Will Not Take Place, and it is Trojan Hector's fierce and fruitless effort to make good this claim that constitutes Giraudoux's action. Troy's greatest warrior, Hector (well played by Michael Redgrave), comes home to find his brother Paris home ahead of him, with Helen. Hector is determined to return Helen to Menelaus, King of Sparta, and so avoid war; nor is the assured, shallow, minxlike Helen (amusingly played by Diane Cilento) the obstacle. The real obstacles are Troy's idealists, who particularly idealize...
...found in Shaw. Yet here the two men touch, for Shaw wrote a kind of Tiger at the Gates in Caesar and Cleopatra. Each man saw worlds about to overturn through a queen's lure; in Shaw's Caesar as in Giraudoux's Hector, the great warrior is the great hater of war; in Shaw's Caesar as in Giraudoux's Ulysses, the wise man sadly grasps the impotence of wisdom. And both plays are as autumnal in their ruefulness as they remain vernal in their...
...with a band of brigands approached Canterbury Cathedral. When the prior tried to bar the doors, the archbishop said: "The House of God should not be made a castle. I command you, under holy obedience, to open those doors!" In cold detail, Author Duggan describes how Becket, the trained warrior, suffered the fatal sword blows, and said, with his dying breath: "For the Holy Name of Jesus and the safety of His Church, I offer myself to death...