Word: comradeships
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...there are still repercussions from the McCarthy era, or maybe the fact that Russia sent military aid to the Spanish democracy has embarrassed the U.S. in any case, The Good Fight transforms the story of the Lincoln Brigade from a missing piece of history to a proud retelling of comradeship that will never be forgotten...
...past was sometimes merely an oafs answer to the deepest questions: What are we for? What do we do with ourselves? War meant motion, drama, change, risk, adventure, challenge, release, danger, intensity, comradeship, travel and stories to bore people with years later. It meant a nihilistic freedom. Few of us have come equipped with the spiritual resources and moral poise of Archimedes, who chose to remain in Syracuse, imperturbably thinking about mathematics while invading Romans gashed through town. A soldier stabbed Archimedes to death as he drew a geometrical figure in the sand...
...Cultural Revolution and rude Red Guards dismissed the traditional Chinese virtue of civility as "bourgeois hypocrisy." But now the Chinese are being encouraged, via government-sponsored organizations like the Polite Language Study Group, to revive a "socialist spirit of comradeship, warmth and concern for others...
...many Frenchmen and Englishmen believed in 1918, that the Germans were about to win the war. But it is hard to read his book without concluding that the course of these sprawling, murderous battles was often changed by individuals or small groups of men, whose sense of honor, courage, comradeship or simple professional efficiency drove them to extreme effort. Toland's most touching example: a Canadian cavalry officer named Gordon Muriel Flowerdew, who was exhorted to lead a squadron of Lord Strathcona's Horse straight at entrenched machine gunners on a ridge. Flowerdew, Toland writes, "a mild-looking...
...representative). Lyndon Johnson also gave Lippmann what Steel calls "the famous treatment: telephone calls for advice, birthday gifts, private lunches at the White House, invitations to state dinners," until Lippmann turned against the Viet Nam War and was denounced in a petulant Johnson speech. So much for comradeship with power...