Word: cowardly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Neither the impending loss of the house in which he has live all his life, nor the assault on his daughter, Hannah, by the brute Henry With row, who is going to foreclose the mortgage, shake him from his trust. When he believes Jimmy Caesar, the neighbor hood coward and a rejected suitor of Hannah, to have killed Withrow, his only feeling is one of sorrow that revenge has been taken in defiance of the clear precept, "Love thine enemies----" Even his brother's failure to post in time a letter containing money for the mortgage leaves him with...
John Ferguson and his son have opposite philosophies of life, but they are united in that finest of all human bond which can come only to men who live their convictions. In Jimmy Caesar. Ervine paints three weaknesses which every man must fight; physical coward ice, life in dreams rather than in reality and a realization of fault without action to eradicate it. The play makes one weave into it one's own failings. That it why it is so strong...
...sudden crisis searches out both the brave and the cowardly. At such times the character of those caught in it becomes evident. The subway coward is the self-seeker under fire. Those who are brave in a panic are those who are gentle and considerate at other times. --Boston Globe...
Death is not terrible to him who meets it bravely, wisely and in the strength of his youth. It is always terrible to the coward, the weakling and the fool. Yet, by the very inverse reason, for those who remain the death of a brave man is tragic beyond the poor power of words...
...Cuba, to avoid the military duty which rests on each citizen as the price of his citizenship. One might be easily tempted, with shallow wisdom, to demand that laws be enacted to prevent these men from seeking in flight the presumably safe but blastingly dishonorable course of the coward...