Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HERO cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world," /V observed Nathaniel Hawthorne, who thought even in 1850 that America's world had turned unheroic. Thomas Carlyle felt that "Ballot-boxes and Electoral suffrages" might prove a fatal threat to heroes. Americans today find heroism daily in Viet Nam and high courage in a thousand situations, from space to civil rights. And yet there is a widespread feeling that the leap of imagination that makes heroes and the generosity of spirit that acknowledges them are disappearing. Can there be real heroes in a time of the computer...
Afterward, Giap proudly wrote that "guerrilla warfare relies on the heroic spirit to triumph over modern weapons." It is a myth-enhancing statement, but it does not quite fit the facts of his triumph over the French. In the decisive turning point at Dienbienphu, it was not the heroic spirit of Giap's soldiers but their massive artillery in the hills that carried...
...life was more difficult than poetry. In the fall of 1962, just after the birth of her son Nicholas, she and Hughes separated permanently. Alone with the children in Devon, Sylvia hurled herself into a heroic but foolhardy attempt to probe her deepest problems with the point...
Memoirists are the musicians of history. Churchill's English eloquence thumped the drumhead of World War II into a heroic thunder with his wartime memoirs. Charles de Gaulle drew a dry bow over the taut strings of French postwar political chaos to produce his searching remembrance of things past. Now Konrad Adenauer is onstage with the first volume of his memoirs, covering the period from 1945, when Germany lay in ruins, to 1953, when the postwar Wirtschaftswunder dawned. Adenauer's instrument, not surprisingly, is a brisk and Bachlike clavier, well tempered by the author's 90 years...
James T. Farrell is the most heroic figure in modern American letters. No one else, in the face of such resolute popular and critical discouragement for so many years, would persist with unsullied vocation so doggedly and prolifically in the lonely and exacting art of fiction. His unrequited passion for literature must be the most gallantly unfortunate affair since an emperor penguin fell in love with Admiral Byrd (and followed him around, hinting with gifts of egg-shaped stones that he would like to join the Navy...