Word: warriorism
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...substitution of "magic operations in the dream world" for a politics of reality brought on World War II, which Winston Churchill, its great warrior, called "The Unnecessary War." Voegelin describes the process...
...general program to liquidate some of the 21 other Government corporations, and to render some of their fat back into the Treasury. Last week Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks put up for sale the Government-owned Inland Waterways Corp., which operates barge lines on the Missouri, Illinois, Mississippi and Warrior Rivers. (Inland Waterways, which has net assets of $14.4 million, has been put on the market before, but no prospective buyer has ever made an offer which the Government considered acceptable.) Meanwhile, both Congress and the Administration were speculatively eying several bigger Government corporations which could probably sell part of their...
Most U.S. Sunday drivers are familiar with psychological warfare, whether they realize it or not. The psychological warrior supreme is the highway cop who ostentatiously parks his big white car marked POLICE on the brow of a hill, for all drivers to see and worry about. He is no bluff. And he has a tremendous effect on the stream of traffic, and seldom has to get out in hot pursuit...
Similarly, last week the Eisenhower Administration went forward with its psychological offensive against the Communist enemy of the Far East, letting enough news of U.S. military potentialities leak out to make its threat a real one. Latest warrior to park his POLICE car ostentatiously was Admiral Arthur W. Radford, commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. As soon as Radford landed in Washington (from headquarters in Pearl Harbor) last week, he was summoned to a White House conference with President Eisenhower. Radford came & went publicly, but gave not a hint of the reason for the visit. Nonetheless, the word...
...from the theatricalism of Maurice Evans as a simpering Caesar to Mature's deadpanning. As the lion-taming hero, TV Actor Alan Young appears imbecilic rather than amiable. Jean Simmons makes a beguiling Lavinia, while Robert Newton tears ferociously into the role of the Christian warrior, Ferrovius. But this screen adaptation of a Shavian classic succeeds mostly in throwing G.B.S. to the lions...