Word: gallanting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unable to make the cultural struggle into a girdle. She is about to be supplemented by a "parlor wife." Odili, a man of many resources, wants this luscious literate for himself, despite the "bride price" being negotiated for her back home in the village by his patron, the gallant and ever-jovial Chief Nanga. Meanwhile, he attends cultural events, not the least of which is a night of instant integration with the wife of a U.S. information officer...
...Hands. On Viet Nam, the Kremlin leader boasted that Russia "is rendering the gallant Vietnamese people steadily increasing economic and military, material and moral support," ritually vowed that the Soviet "will do everything in its power to help drive out the American invaders." But Kosygin added that Russia stands ready to "traverse our part of the road toward mutual understanding" and "will not be taken in by the provocations of those who would like to warm their hands over the hot beds of international tension"-which seemed aimed less at the U.S. than at Red China...
...created the theater in his own image, and it wears two masks and a thousand faces. The mask of tragedy says weep-and bear it. The mask of comedy says grin-and bear it. The theater is witness and partner to man's endurance. Tawdry or frivolous, gallant, polemical or profound, the theater is the place where man speaks to man about man in his living presence...
...national character that Americans have always had only tempered admiration for the men of strictly military exploits. John Paul Jones and Farragut rise from the history books as authors of heroic slogans, but hardly as full-fledged heroes. Besides, there is a strong prejudice in favor of the gallant loser and the persistent defender of a lost cause. Lee and Stonewall Jackson outrank Ulysses S. Grant. World War I produced no military heroes unless it was Sergeant York, a man of peace reacting to pressure. World War II and after showed a growing sophistication in American taste in war heroes...
...reasons for the war do not always seem clear to all Americans, few can fail to be moved by the tales of individual valor and self-sacrifice that the conflict has inspired. One of the most gallant of all was written last week on the rugged Kontum plateau by a man who had first won hero credentials on the football field: Army Captain William Stanley Carpenter Jr., 28, the famed "lonely end" and captain of West Point's 1959 team...