Word: warriorism
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Price of Peace. Good form among battling Guajiros requires that a warrior ride up to the enemy, dismount and shoot his own horse first, to show self-confidence. In spite of such horsing around, the Blackbirds and the Weasels managed, in two years, to kill 41 of both tribes and rustle countless livestock. A fortnight ago, fed up with fighting, they decided to try again to work out a peace...
...thought that G.I. (which came out of World War II and stands for Government Issue) was too undignified. Henceforth, "all references to a man in the Army should identify him primarily as a soldier . . . The term soldier is ancient and honorable. Webster defines a soldier as 'a skilled warrior' and never before in history has a soldier so richly deserved this definition...
That is the way Roxane, heroine of Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, explains how she got through hell & high water and enemy lines to her warrior husband at the front. Last week, in Korea, Roxane reappeared in the shape of a lively, British woman named Benita Lassetter...
...looks through This Is War!, with its vivid combat scenes and unforgettable warrior faces, can doubt that Duncan has succeeded magnificently. In these 150 pages of pictures, the bruising war of the foot soldier is fixed in a succession of moments that make captions superfluous (Duncan uses none). To capture such moments, Duncan had to become, in effect, a front-line soldier. Only in that way could he get close enough to photograph the grenade in flight, the finger squeezing the trigger, the first instant of surprised shock of the wounded...
Possibly because of the film's obvious earnestness and calmly informative narration, no St. Louis moviegoer has protested its plentiful shots of bare-breasted women and unadorned men or its savagely raw scenes, e.g., as a test of manhood, a young warrior taps the jugular vein of a bound cow, lets the blood flow into a gourd and gulps it down...