Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Considering the residual hatred that had built up between Syria and Israel over the years, Sadat's commentary on Kissinger's heroic labor was not too wide of the mark. Among the eight key points that Kissinger has managed to work out in a typically imaginative, subtle and complicated agreement...
...which he himself was St. Sebastian. Poshlust again. What rescued Mishima from merely exotic decadence was his creative vigor and intelligence. He found a larger context for his obsessions in the Japanese martial tradition, which formalized his bloody impulses and created in him a kind of reverence for heroic self-slaughter, the ultimate self-abuse. He lived the anachronistic code of bunburyodo, the samurai tradition of art and action. Or he lived it some of the time. He played other roles as well, among them that of a conventional husband (he was married for twelve years and had two children...
...search of the woman worthy of his heroic self-sacrifice, Tarnopol throws aside such winners, such female Tarnopols, as Dina Dornbusch (Sarah Lawrence, "rich, pretty, smart, sexy, adoring") on the way to his perfect losing cause. Maureen Johnson is a twice-divorced ex-barmaid out of Elmira, N.Y., afflicted by artiness, more than a touch of paranoia and a very odd walk. Roth often seems as baffled as the reader as to why Tarnopol should marry this "cornball Clytemnestra" for whom he feels no affection or even lust. Does Maureen represent the muse of disorder, the Dionysian element every artist...
...Ogre, though heroic, is grotesque...
...thousands of people in the West, Willy Brandt has been one of the truly heroic figures of the postwar world. He is still remembered by many as the fighting mayor of West Berlin. More important, though, he was a statesman-realist who was determined to confront and conquer Germany's shameful past, a Europe-minded visionary who preached unity for the Continent, and the Nobel Peace-prizewinning architect of Ostpolitik. Konrad Adenauer cemented West Germany's ties with the West, and Ludwig Erhard fashioned the economic miracle that has made the Deutsche Mark the world's most...