Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Little Israel's heroic performance against the might of five Arab nations (aided by a coat-holding U.S.S.R.) has done more than save its own life. It may have given a vegetating U.N. a new opportunity to act bravely instead of to browbeat. If the U.N. wants to be a peace-insuring body, it must have the means to commandeer a police force that could on short notice be stationed in any unstable region. This force would have to have the power to act forcibly to quell aggression and provocative actions early...
...difference is not a matter of discipline but of treatment. In previous wars Negro troops were just as heroic, disciplined and devoted as at present, but they were then subjected to official, systematic insult, discrimination, humiliation and frameups in efforts to discredit them. Thanks to the pioneer work of President Harry S Truman, segregation in the armed forces has been virtually eliminated, and the Negro, in the main, has been accepted on the same basis as other fighting men. As a result, the U.S. military establishment is now, ironically, the most democratic institution in American life, which accounts...
...every major segment of the Roman Catholic Church: a prelate or two from major sees that traditionally require cardinal-archbishops; a sprinkling of faithful retainers from the Roman Curia; a spokesman for at least one nation that has never before had a member of the sacred college; a heroic bishop who has defended the Christian faith behind the Iron Curtain; and at least one energetic American...
Intransigent Hero. Another new Iron Curtain prelate is Karol Wojtyla, 47, of Cracow, a talented theologian whom the Vatican hopes may get along better with the Gomulka regime than does Warsaw's Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski. Although Wyszynski for years led a heroic battle against Poland's Communist leaders that kept Catholicism alive, Rome seems to feel that his intransigence now stands in the way of gaining further concessions for the church...
...difficult for painters in this ' day to do heroic portraits," says Artist Sidney Nolan. "But it is easier to do them of poets and artists than of statesmen." He attempted to make his cover portrait of Poet Robert Lowell heroic by crowning the sorrowful head with a triumphant wreath of laurels. Nolan is a close friend of Lowell's, but he says that his picture is of the poet, not the friend. "I could do another aspect of him for the back cover of the magazine, like the other side of a coin. It would be just...