Word: warriors
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Navajos arrived from the north 500 years later. Proud and aggressive, they formed a fierce nomadic warrior culture, herding sheep and patrolling the desert on horses first introduced by Spanish explorers. Then, as now, the Navajos had little use for village life. Each family ranged over miles of grazing land, adding easily built mud and cedar-log hogans as new generations arrived, and moving the sheep when grazing areas played out. If they used the land differently from the Hopis, they attached equal mystical significance to it, dotting the hilltops with shrines attesting to its power to provide...
With The Woman Warrior (1976), Author Maxine Hong Kingston left herself a hard act to follow. That book, her first, indelibly rendered the pain of growing up female and Chinese in the U.S., of being in effect a servant among the dispossessed. It bridged two vastly different cultures; its drawing of Chinese legends and customs was thorough and fascinating, while its evocation of the uncertainties of assimilation was quintessentially American. The Woman Warrior did, in short, what all great autobiographies do: it turned self-knowledge into...
...voice, alternately angry, calm, sardonic and compassionate, spins healing magic. The term chinamen is a literal and figurative slur, a squeezing to gether of words for the purpose, intended or not, of diminution. China Men puts the pause back where it belongs. Maxine Hong Kingston, a woman warrior indeed, stares down her men in equal combat; ultimately, this granddaughter, daughter and sister helps them win the respect their dignity deserves. -Paul Gray...
Bogarde's hero, Rooke, ages and deepens during the course of a year, and a final irony is that he is so drawn in the end by his military occupation that he considers becoming a professional warrior. The general who dissuades him is one of a dozen or more of Bogarde's characters who are too sharply drawn to be easily forgotten. The writer is a gifted observer, and it will be interesting to see now whether he turns his talents to a novel about acting. - John Skow
...every move on the international stage is selected to please the audience of American voters, not to further a coherent foreign policy. It is precisely Carter's failure to solve domestic problems--most notably his inability to present an effective energy program--that have led him to seek the warrior's glory around the globe...