Word: warriorism
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...Spartan boy is bred to militarism. He's taken from his mother and, as the movie says, is "thrown into a world of unspeakable cruelty" (or, as the English call it, boarding school). Spartans are the tough guys, the bully boys, the warrior class, fighting and dying for other Greeks who may lack their mettle. Leonidas chides the Athenians as "those philosophers and boy-lovers...
...Rather than philosopher-kings, Leonidas’ actual Sparta was a society of fighter-kings, where “equals” were the fearless warrior class bred to serve the hawkish state. In fact, the state provided hordes of slave workers, helots, to work the lands of “equals.” Sparta’s economic and social arrangement was built around the assumption that colonized cities would be enslaved and, thanks to their labor, Spartan armies would be fed and clothed. How is that for an “age of freedom?...
...just think that it makes him more interesting.”BUTT-KICKING SCOTSMANFor Butler, who played the ultra-masculine Leonidas, the issue of characterization was a simpler one. Butler explains that the bulk of his preparation involved physical training, which he said made him feel like a warrior, regardless of his actual strength.“In the middle of the film, maybe I couldn’t have kicked a single person’s ass, but I felt like I could have kicked everyone’s ass,” he says...
...greatest enigma in college basketball is something seemingly too simple: win on the road.Yet in any league, for any team, it is the hardest thing to do.To become a road warrior, gain road fortitude, or excel in any other cliché one can choose is a challenge that brings even the best of programs to its knees.For Harvard, the team has dubbed it “road toughness.” And despite the disappointments of the weekend past, punctuated by its hard-fought 75-63 loss to Penn on Saturday night, the Crimson still believes it can transfer this...
...farming community of Yelm, Wash., about 50 miles south of Seattle. But to the 700 people who paid $400 apiece over Thanksgiving to attend her weekend seminar at the Doubletree Plaza Hotel outside Seattle, Knight is the conduit for the distant voice of Ramtha, a 35,000-year-old "warrior." (That would make Ramtha a contemporary of Cro-Magnon man, giving new meaning to General MacArthur's statement that old soldiers never die.) According to Knight, Ramtha speaks, or "channels," his wisdom and prophecy through her. Ramtha first spoke to her in 1977, she says, when she was experimenting with...