...beauty and horror, love and death. War may be the only way in which most men touch the mystic domains of our soul. It is for men, at some terrible level, the...women: the initiation into the power of life and death. (Ibid., p. 61) In many tribal cultures, the love of war is openly and unashamedly displayed. War is...

...main character suggests, "don't have to go to war to prove something."3 War is, as Broyles declares, "for men, at some terrible level the closest thing...the initiation into the power of life and death." Following this logic, men who don't go to war "now have a sort of nostalgic longing for something they...

...Broyles, Jr., reinscribing Gray's analysis to help himself understand his own Vietnam experience, writes: "The love of war stems from the union, deep in the...the initiation into the power of life and death." 13 Men: The Militant Many/The Pacific Few Gray would not exempt women from the generic category men....

...Broyles, Jr., reinscribing Gray's analysis to help himself understand his own Vietnam experience, writes: "The love of war stems from the union, deep in the...for women: the initiation into the power of life and death."13 200 Gray would not exempt women from the generic category men. Although women do not do the...

...war, Broyles describes not only the spectacle of destructive force but also its special significance for men: "at some terrible level the closest thing...the initiation into the power of life and death." In Vietnam War representations, this spectacle symbolizes the recuperation of manhood; weaponry serves...

...William J. Broyles put it in an article entitled "Why Men Love War," "at some terrible level [it] is the closest thing to what childbirth is for women: the initiation into the power of life and death" (55). Carol Cohn (1987) also found a strong relationship between "giving birth" and creating atomic...

...beauty and horror. love and death. War may be the only way in which most men touch the mythic domains of our soul. It is. for men. at some terrible level the...the initiation into the power of life and death.^ But where Broyles affirms a sense of elemental truth. a bodily passage into the timeless "mythic domains...

...beauty and horror, love and death. War may be the only way in which most men touch the mythic domains of our soul. It is, for men, at some terrible level the...for women: the initiation into the power of life and But where Broyles affirms a sense of elemental truth, a bodily passage into the timeless "mythic domains...

...union, deep in the core of our being, between sex and destruction, beauty and horror, love and death ... It is, for men, at some terrible level, the closest...initiation into the power of life and death."' It is this 'initiation into the power of life and death' that McDonald's pilot is thrilled by, an initiation...

...union, deep in the core of our being, between sex and destruction, beauty and horror, love and death ... It is, for men, at some terrible level, the closest...for women: the initiation into the power of life and death.'11 It is this 'initiation into the power of life and death' that McDonald's pilot is thrilled...