Even A Pacifist Should Admire The Military

Visually Agincourt Is A Pre-raphaelite, Perhaps Better A Medici Gallery Print Battle - A Composition Of Strong Verticals And Horizontals And A Conflict Of Rich Dark Reds And Lincoln Greens Against Fishscale Greys And Arctic Blues.

Of Whatever Class Or Nation, However, All Successful Participants In The Repetitive And Unrelenting Stress Of Aerial Fighting Came Eventually To Display Its Characteristic Physiognomy: Skeletal Hands, Sharpened Noses, Tight-drawn Cheek Bones, The Bared Teeth Of A Rictus Smile And The Fixed, Narrowed Gaze Of Men In A State Of Controlled Fear.

Hitler ... Lacked The [inclination] For Anything More Than The Occasional Sensational Display Of Emotion, In Particular The Great Set-piece Speech Which Mesmerized The Mob And Left Him Drained Of ... Energy.

I Don't Think That What's Going On In Bosnia Is Political Activity. It's Partly Political, But It's Partly Atavistic As Well.

I Think Americans Like The Practical; They Like The Human. And I Like Both Those Things Myself, And I Try And Put Them Into My Books.