Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Science Action Coordinating Committee (SACC) announced last Friday its agreement with the NAC demands. The committee added, however, that no change "will come about through the violent, though heroic, actions of a few." SACC will hold a rally against M. I. T.'s war-related research at 10 a.m. tomorrow at Kresge Plaza...
...Lonesome Cowboys , coming out of and replacing Hawks's adventure dramas, has its own brand of despair. If Hawks's characters approached neurosis in their rivalry and their avoidance of domination by women, their constant games of bluff at least gave them a personal style which could become heroic. Warhol's treatment of his characters goes to bedrock; they have nothing but their bodies to back up their actions. They and their world are completely anti-general and anti-ideal. They are physical entities before Warhol's lens...
...Boys in the Band winds up, with two squabbling male lovers trying desperately to save their relationship. Beyond that, the homosexual is a special kind of antihero; his emergence on center stage reflects the same sympathy for outsiders that has transformed oddballs and criminals from enemies into heroic rebels against society in such films as Bonnie and Clyde and Alice's Restaurant...
Unfortunately, most proclamations are signed, passed on to the media, and then promptly put into what is generally known as the circular file. This is unfortunate, for proclamations contain some of the noblest prose and most heroic sentiments known to present-day man. An example is this proclamation issued last week in Cambridge of which, alas most Cambridgians have been thus far unaware...
...deaths which befall each of the major characters take place almost incidentally and make their heroic, existential, death-defying gestures almost futile. Two of them are killed when their truck is blown to pieces. The explosion takes place a long way from the other truck, but the wind it produces is so great that it whisks away a cigarette from the mouth of one of the drivers...