Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even get a boot out of it. Professional soccer, the most popular spectator sport in the world, outside of girl watching, is coming to the U.S. in a big way. And if the TV moneybags have guessed right, the likes of Emment Kapengwe and Horst Szymaniak will shortly assume heroic stances alongside Willie Mays and Johnny Unitas...
...failure of the communist regimes to develop "communist morality," and inculcate communist-defined "ideal types," can be seen in the results of a survey of Hungarian school children. The majority chose the "bourgeois" hero Robin Hood over both Marx and Lenin when responding to questions concerning figures perceived as heroic types. When asked why, the children cited the qualities of bravery, honesty, and loyalty--not the most important of the behavior traits which communist regimes seek to instill in its young citizens. Only 9.5 percent of the school children chose "heroes of the workers' movement" as their ideal. Interestingly...
Ghetto Gold. The narrator is but one of several fathers-and the least successful in that role. The most heroic is his father, Sam Gold, who took his name from what the streets of America were reportedly paved with and left his native Russian village against the will of his own father. Sam Gold is traced from the pre-World War I ghetto in New York to Cleveland; from water boy to cigar maker to pushcart vender to greengrocer to successful real estate speculator. A prodigious worker, he conquers the New World through the marketplace and adjusts to the traumas...
Strong Resemblance. The main flaw in this heroic story is that Nguyen Van Be is alive and in a South Vietnamese jail. When he was captured ten months ago, he was taken to a jail in the delta town of My Tho (there were no prisoner-of-war camps in the region at the time). Recently, an alert South Vietnamese policeman noticed the strong resemblance between the jumbo photos of Be in the Hanoi press and a rather withdrawn Viet Cong prisoner in a corner cell. Astounded to hear of his courageous exploits, Be soon saw the wisdom...
...Eastern Europe's nervous stable of writers, finding an outlet offers a far greater challenge than finding a theme. Tons of newsprint flow from publishing houses weekly, saturating stores with technical books, biographies of Communist leaders and heroic novels of the Tractor School. But most other works gather dust on censors' desks, forcing many writers to resort to the dangerous system of publishing under a pseudonym in the West...