Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what has attracted attention to Simone Weil, more than her sometimes foolish, sometimes heroic life, is her inner struggle, on which she reported in books such as Waiting for God, Gravity and Grace. Her Notebooks, now published in English for the first time, are probably the most personal account of that struggle. If some of the jottings in these two volumes make her seem like the lead scout of the troubled lost battalion of agnosticism, many more confirm a rare and remarkable religious vocation...
...this country, Herodotus' phrase has been slightly rewritten to conform to the more heroic conception of a courageous courier who fights his way through the cold, black night to bring the news to a last outpost of civilization. "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds," is the popular adaptation of Herodotus' words, which, although certainly discriminatory towards Persian messengers, has been inscribed atop the main Post Office Building in New York City...
This is not the action some people understandably cry for. But it is life or death for the victims of Hungary's heroic effort to be free. It is our way as private American citizens to identify ourselves with their cause, their plight and their children...
...renewal of that basic sanity among men and nations which will establish peace upon its only enduring foundations of justice and charity. With him we urge upon the world not the counsels of despair which would describe the situation as beyond salvation . . . Foremost, inevitably, in our thinking are the heroic people of Hungary. For centuries they have been a bastion of Christendom against the outer perils . . . Now again they have received the full brunt of a calculated fury and have written a matchless chapter in the annals of freedom...
Wyszynski's parting words showed his anxiety for Poland's future. "Poles can die heroically. A man can only die once and thus quickly cover himself in fame, but our lives are spent in long years of toil, trial and tribulation. That is still more heroic. This is the kind of greater heroism which the present time requires...