Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ancient mariners and American pioneers, the early Polar explorers like Scott and Peary, the early aviators like the Wright brothers and Lindbergh. To many of today's young, who view courage in moral terms as a battle against impersonal organization, the astronauts do not seem particularly heroic precisely because they epitomize the organization...
...remarkable creation within this workmanlike and well-modulated narrative is the character of Pierce. Steadfastly carrying a belief in the heroic pattern of life "like a shiny coin in his pocket," he represents a Hemingway-esque hero as seen through a Fitzgerald lens. His relationship with Ben is something far more complex than a simple boy-meets-boy story. As Pierce's wife observes to Ben just before the denouement: "What a curious pair you are, you two. I used to think the relationships between women were complicated, but they're nothing to what goes on between...
Upon reading your review of Miss Susann's book and facing the distressing fiscal facts contained therein, I rushed forth and bought a color television set of heroic dimensions, broke off all diplomatic relations with my book clubs, and now, with shriveled soul and bated breath, I wait for the dawn of McLuhan's Millennium of Non-Linear Information...
...must be a bit subversive, as well as comic, ambiguous and heroic in order to play middleman in a world where everybody else appears as an extremist of one sort or another. Spender shows a certain fondness for "girls with hair like seaweed." He is as fascinated as a traveler from another planet by the rebel-rhetorical style, which he traces back to the beatniks: "It had the inspiration of some sustained fit of oaths from the mouth of a drunken Welshman." He even admires the way student-rebels combine "a passion for solitude with a love of being televised...
...suppose that in a year when the Vatican has officially deposed a host of saints on should not be surprised when someone tries to depose Britain's most religious and heroic king. But Shakespeare himself had already taken care of the deposition of a king in the first of the four-play series of which Henry V is properly the shining culmination. Richard II and the two Henry IV plays are markedly greater and more complex works, but Henry V--when allowed to do so--compensates through its ringing patriotism and its moral, legal, and divine certainty. The play...