Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...youth. His one love affair founders on his poverty before it is launched. His friends are a kindly, resigned fatalist, and a mad painter who drags him to hear opera from the top gallery. His sensitive nature is sickened by the War and after the misery of heroism he experiences peacetime betrayal by crass noncombatants. This wistfulness may irritate some U. S. readers, used to two-fisted, hammer-and-tongs irony. Clerks who cheat and win under our system must brag about it later to ring true. Our politicians are colorful or they are nothing. Not so in France. There...
Only a genuine joy-killer would point out that passing examinations is only the routine duty of students in every college, and not a feat of heroism calling for an extraordinary reward. It would be a useless effort on the part of the joy-killer, at that. There is among most of the student body after every examination period, a feeling that they have studied harder than ever, and that they deserve a high grade, whether or not they receive it. It is better to celebrate, by all means, while this righteous mood endures, than to wait for the cold...
...object of such a monument (a war memorial) is to render honor to the dead, to precerve their memory, and remind those who come after of their heroism. The advantage of a Church or chapel is that one enters it in a spirit of reverence, and a church, therefore, adds something to the solemnity of a memorial, and this en-enhances the object sought...
...artistic merit of the picture lies in its ability to make an ungarnished section of humanity glow with a composite heroism. Rhythm seems to be the secret of its intensity...
...Sacrifice. In the middle of the act, a hasty retreat is ordered. No one has time to extricate Bill and Alf from their equine environment. The subsequent adventures of a horse's upper on four human legs, among inebriated German invaders' leads to a timely heroism. Bill becomes a sergeant, pays back all the corporal's petty tyranny. It is doubtful, if even Syd's brother, Charlie, ever made so many people laugh so loud and so long...