European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Words and wit when winning leads victors to triumphalism William Safire icon language Triumph without Victory is the title of a new . News amp world report Book about the persian Gulf War. A Nice differentiation of synonyms in current usage a Triumph is a spectacular win As of a single Battle Victory a rooted in the latin Vincere a to conquer Quot a often has the connotation of the successful culmination of a War. Back in the Days of the cold War no i m not being nostalgic the word a a foil was frowned on in accommodation St circles Gen. Douglas Macar thur s Stern 1951 statement to a joint meeting of Congress Quot in War there is no substitute for Victory Quot seemed unduly final to Many seeking a settlement of the korean conflict a decade later sen. Barry m. Goldwater used the word to provoke his Liberal critics in the title of his Book Why not Victory ? meanwhile perhaps to conceal ambitions of global domination soviet propagandists put Forward the notion of convergence a meeting of the communist and capitalist systems on some undefined common ground the notion of winning the cold War was considered Bellicose and not in the spirit of detente. Caspar w. Weinberger defense Secretary for Ronald Reagan was criticized for using the verb prevail in predicting the outcome of a nuclear War but could have pointed to William Faulkner s use of the term about Mankind in a Nobel prize lecture. Then Eastern Europe spun off from the soviet Empire and the soviet Union itself began to come apart after the communist party was banned in Russia it became apparent that the West had actually won the ideological struggle with the bipolar Bear. But when some unreconstructed hard liners wanted to run out in the streets to celebrate reconstructed soft liners pointed to the impropriety of gloating As in the words of rear adm. John Woodward Jack Philip at the Battle of Santiago in 1898 a a done to cheer men those poor devils Are a word was needed to attack the exultant winners for their offensive desire to celebrate. The word was waiting having been coined in 1964 in a non political religious context. In a Book on the Vatican Council observer in Rome Robert Mcafee Brown wrote a i am greatly impressed by the recognition of human failings in this prayer and by its exclusion of the triumphalism that has often seemed to characterize the the use of quotation Marks May have been the act of a self conscious Coiner or More Likely the authors use of a neologism in the roman air at that time. The temporal has overtaken the spiritual and architectural in London the observer wrote in 1983 that certain conservative journalists Quot fed readers and viewers a diet of Triumph Listic the same year Fidel Castro warned that a an air of triumphalism reigns in the Reagan administration a an attitude he equated with adventurism. Victory which John f. Kennedy said had a thousand fathers is Sweet but its had incas can Lead to unsteadiness. I recall the euphoria after the 1972 Nixon election when some of my hotly partisan colleagues rubbed their hands in anticipation of a grand sweeping out of losers,.speech writer Raymond k. Price cautioned Quot there is the a sore Winner there Are always those spoilsport around loaded Down with sour looks and wet blankets and they Linton a deflowering reveals weaknesses of his rivals Tony Kornheiser reports from the Campaign Trail in new Hampshire indicate that despite the initial hurry of negative reaction to the claims that Bill Clinton carried on a 12-year affair with Gennifer Flowers described by my aunt Rose As Quot a bottle blonde trailer Park a the kind your Uncle Morty used to Date quo sources close to the Arkansas governor Are expressing guarded optimism that they be scored a coup. Quot the thing has Given Bill tremendous name recognition Quot one Clinton adviser not his real name said happily. Quot two months ago Bill Clinton could be Ridden through the streets of new Hampshire Buck naked on a Porcupine and nobody would be looked up. Now he a Errol Flynn. We did a shopping Center opening the other Day and Bill was mobbed. An 80-year-old nun held up a sign that said Gennifer gust gel Quot indeed every Campaign Story in the new Hampshire papers a from Quot Harkin lost in sewer pipe. Humps into i d Norton Quot to Quot Buchanan proposes voice activated electric Fence along mexican Border Quot a has been overshadowed by Clinton. Herds an item from the Concord Light amp shoppers daily Quot according to the latest Drobbin poll 86 percent of american voters done to think Bill Clinton s alleged affair should disqualify him from being president. Drebbin surveyed 4,500 people who have spent at least one night in a hotel that offers in room dirty movies. Typical of the responses was from a los Angeles Man who said a have you Ever been to Arkansas get real. There a nothing else to do Quot in a related can Usa today poll 42 percent of registered male voters who were surveyed said they d be willing to have sex with Hillary Clinton. A she a not bad a for a lawyer a said one respondent. Twenty two percent said they a already had sex with Gennifer Flowers. And 8 percent said they had read that Geraldo Rivera had sex with both women at the same time while he was interviewing Al Capone a hat. A in other Campaign developments Iowa sen. Tom i Larkin says he favors the immediate nuclear bombing of North Korea. Harkin apparently made the comment at a rally in Nashua n.h., 10 Days ago. It went unreported because our entire staff was staking out Bill Clinton s the other candidates have tried to act presidential and All it has gotten them is Page 14, near the lire ads. This is about to change. At a luncheon with senior editors of the prestigious Globe a the Midnight Globe not the Boston Globe a Bob Kerrey a Campaign workers circulated topless photos of Kerrey and Debra Winger in the Aswan dam. Staffers at Jerry Browne a Headquarters have removed pictures of the candidate posing with Mother Teresa and replaced Ihm w Ith a life size Hologram of Linda Ronstadt nude. Paul Tsongas is so upset at the Lack of coverage that he a thinking of going Public with an account of being kidnapped As a Small boy by ufos aliens who injected him with a vaccine that mad Page 18 a sunday february 9, 199? Aetna Macathur. A in War there is no substitute for now have a hefty verbal javelin to hurl at the celebrants at the Victory party winged Frog for rejected what he called a Jiffy questions Quot he saw them As reportorial traps. President Bush too dismisses hypothetical questions asked about extending unemployment benefits if the Economy sinks again he replied Quot if a Frog had wings he hit his Tail on the this vivid construction was cited in the 1942 dictionary of quotations by . Monck in As a if a Frog had wings he bump his backside every time he done to you wish you could Coin one As they said in the 17th Century a if wishes were horses beggars would a the new York times him Boring. Tsongas figures that a Worth a whole segment on now it can be told. And harking a Campaign manager phoned a current affair saying Harkin would discuss rumours that he was the real life test donor for reality the new women s contraceptive. A so you want to cover a presidential election Here a a journalism test you can take at Home. We give you a newspaper headline. You write the first paragraph As it would appear in the year requested. Organs size questioned 1952 a architects at St. Paul a arc concerned that the 15th-Century european pipe Organ they had planned to import from Vienna May be too Large for the Cathedral s main organs size questioned 1972 a surgeons discounted reports that the heart of a 38-year-old Delicatessen customer who choked to death on stuffed Derma would be too Large to be transplanted into a 7-year-old boy Quot organs size questioned 1992 a attorneys for democratic presidential hopeful Bill Clinton Are disputing a Wyoming barmaids claim that she had sex with Clinton three times a Day for the past 19 months and plan to offer forensic evidence that. Yes ladies and gentlemen another episode of sex lives of the Rich and elect Able a supreme court nominees confirmation hearing gets stuck on i need a Hill one . Senator gets nude room service massages from a former Beauty Queen another runs around without his pants. I used to get the Playboy Channel on Cable but i cancelled. I signed up for a Span instead. Debates issues platforms Why not stick All the presidential candidates in a Motel 6 with the swedish Bikini team for a week cameras running. They might not rack up in the new Hampshire primary but they re a Einch for the february sweeps. Crib Alofs Syndicate
