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...Jay Luvaas The Lost Account of the Battle of Corinth and Court-Martial of Gen. van Dorn . By an Unknown Author. Introduction and Informal Essay on the Battle by Cockrell Monroe F. . Jackson, Tennessee : McCowat-Mercer Press , 1955 . Pp. 78 . $1.50 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke...

...Arthur B. Ferguson Martial Books and Tudor Verse . By Langsam G. Geoffrey . New York : King’s Crown Press , 1951 . Pp. 213 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 340 The South Atlantic Quarterly conflicting reinterpretions and unimaginable finesses, until...

..., by warrior feudal overlords. The primary principle of conduct that has been propounded, and the central attitude that has been cultivated among the people, has been that of loyalty to the imperial house, chiefly in a martial sense. This loyalty has been taught as the fundamental spirit of Japanese Shinto...

... of individual genius. P. F. BAUM Martial Books and Tudor Verse. By G. Geoffrey Langsam. New York: King s Crown Press, 1951. Pp. 213. $3.50. While disclaiming any attempt to add to the body of knowledge con­ cerning sixteenth-century warfare, Mr. Langsam has made a survey of the martial literature of Tudor...

... of the judicial process? Courts-martial, or trials by military tribunals, have been con­ ducted in various areas, by the occupying power in each case. Thus the Russians put to trial persons accused of war crimes and found in their area of occupation. A British military tribunal tried and sentenced the Germans who...

... of suspension rests with the legislature. Judicial decisions also uphold this view of our Constitution, but many eminent men have held that this was a prerogative of the Executive.* Inasmuch as he undoubtedly has the right to pro­ claim martial law it might be argued that it is a mere quibble of terms, since...

... martial law and the reconstitution of that nation s literary ambitions have begun, noticeably, to converge. President / Prime Minister Marcos has de­ scribed his rule since 1972 as constitutional authoritarianism, even while taking steps ostensibly to decentralize the governing process. Similarly...

... for the statement that Poppaea, the wife of Nero, had her favorite mules shod with gold, while Martial/ III. 62 complains that the price of a mule exceeds that of a house in the city. Martial VIII. 61 shows that if a person was too poor to own carriage-mules, it was possible to secure them for hire. In Horace s...

... of general scope by which the privilege was denied to all rebels and insurgents, their aiders and abettors . . . and all persons discouraging . . . en­ listments, resisting . . . drafts, or guilty of any disloyal practices. Such persons were, by this proclamation, made subject to martial law, and liable...

... favor postulated the retention instead of the loss of manliness; the individual who showed martial vigor on the field was more certain of his regard than was the fellow who handed him his shirt in the morning. By 1665, however, all this was changed; the heroic age had fizzled out in the ridiculous...

... postulates that both men were presumably deeply shocked by just such an actual event Essex s fatal confrontation with society and Queen Elizabeth in 1601 and that these plays constitute a creative di­ alogue through which they examine from divergent perspectives this disastrous conflict between martial...

... the (inevitable) contagion of mercantile values. It goes without saying that to write a martial epic in the four­ teenth century was to place oneself in a vulnerable position (some­ thing like sitting down today to write the great American novel Vulnerable because, from the remotest antiquity, epic had been...

... life which saps the hardy virtues in a nation. Thus he eagerly welcomed the opportunity for martial uplift afforded by the Spanish-American War, and he heaped scorn on those who criticized American involvement.5 The Harvard philosopher William James echoed Roosevelt s critique of an overcivilized...

... anthologized by F. O. Matthiessen in The Oxford Book of American Verse. Together with these poems, I should mention at least one fairly recent one Court-martial, which appears in the 1957 volume Promises. These titles stand out with a certain bril­ liance. The progression they represent embodies the growth...

..., the minuscule future seeable or guessable, and even that might the plane was coming again even that might be as illusive. As the house shook (they were bombing the Palace again), the ululant gurgles of the popular Vietnamese girl singer ended abruptly, and Radio Saigon blared martial music. But still no word...

... to create posterity. Now, if war had cut down the courageous in any such proportions as these pa­ cificists would have us believe, would there not have occurred a decline in the martial strength of mankind? We know the contrary to be true. A modern army is braver and steadier than were the phalanxes...

... learning karate and participating in the life of the dojo, I began to appreciate the ritual Japanese regimentation that structured this ancient martial art. I had always rebelled against the tyranny of unnecessary ritual, but now I routinely participated in it. More than anything I was struck...

.... But that step Weber never took. The grounds for his adoption by the latter group besides the obvious one that he was born a German and often composed like one are three: his martial songs, his long strug­ gle with the Italians, and his establishment of German opera. The war songs, which are more celebrated than...

... actions in the sector. This is critical, but the problem of logistics and disruption speaks to how this calculative management and martial science has remade society and space beyond just transportation and distribution. In fact, the crisis in motion of this moment lies not only in matters of physical...

... are amply rendered here too). Paths of Glory features only one three-minute-long battle scene. After that, the narrative is given over to the highly ritualized court-martial of three French soldiers for cow- ardice. Though not themselves cowards, these unlucky men are designated scapegoats...