Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Challenge. Today, says Philosopher Perry, the faith of our fathers has been challenged in every particular. History has been rewritten. Instead of a picture of heroic achievement it has become a study of capitalism in America-in which, if capitalism was questioned, so was Americanism. The profound Christianity of the early Americans has waned: not only are more Americans without religious adherence, but there is also a wavering and thinning of faith among church members. Moreover, it is now argued that human affairs are governed by passions, blind drives, fears or needs, "while rational purposes, moral codes, and philosophies...
...screen version of Tomorrow, the World! preserves intact and unimproved the play's prime weakness. The protagonist, son of a heroic anti-Nazi, learned to despise his father and to adore Hitler almost wholly through terror rather than persuasion. He is thus too specialized a case to represent the common run of Hitler's children, or to prove, in the story's closing suggestion that he is reconstructible, that there is any such hope for them...
...Drake was shot down over Sicily, captured by the Nazis - for 18 months now has been a prisoner of war in Germany). And Cinema Writer Alfred Wright Jr. is still another TIME man who holds the D.F.C. and the Air Medal (plus the Presidential Unit Citation) for "outstanding airmanship, heroic conduct, loyal devotion to duty." (In the Solomons Lieut. Wright bombed and strafed 25 Japanese vessels "with cool courage and titter disregard for his own safety in the face of tremendous anti-aircraft fire...
Rocks in the Stream. The German drive had already been slowed down by the heroic stand of the 101st Airborne at Bastogne (see below), which confined Rundstedt's columns to secondary roads north and south of the town. The 82nd Airborne had put up a fierce defense around Stavelot, the 7th Armored between Saint-Vith and Vielsalm, the 1st Infantry at the north shoulder of the salient below Monschau, and the 4th Infantry at the south shoulder, around Echternach. The two infantry outfits had prevented Rundstedt from widening the salient's base. They were pegs that...
That was Rundstedt's first upset. The second was the heroic refusal of the 101st Airborne to be overrun at Bastogne. The Americans' northern peg held firm when a regiment of one of the overrun divisions refused to give ground and enabled First Army divisions to the north to wheel in on that flank...