Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emergency opens up all the reservoirs of fear. The answer to fear is action. In some women it becomes an obsession, with a strong sense of guilt and the need to sacrifice themselves in the general cause. Their suffering and heroism may be intense. They seek jobs at the battlefronts, often try to forget their fear by drinking and sexual promiscuity. In other women the reaction is hysterical, involving rebellion against authority, especially against mothers. They are driven to seek experience, including sexual dangers...
...well worn theme of the criminal turned patriotic is always a good sound plot for the theater. It can readily be given new twists as the recent "Passage to Marseille" and the present "Uncertain Glory" show; yet the basic ingredient of heroism remains to please the public. The title of this opus is deceptive, for by the end of the picture the hero's glory is as certain as Hollywood can make it, and they have been in the hero-making business for some years...
...since January the Germans had turned back whatever Allies-New Zealanders, Americans, British, Indian Gurkhas-had attempted to drive them out of the town and out of the ancient Benedictine monastery on a nearby hilltop. Said a Nazi general order captured last week: "Cassino has become synonymous with underlying heroism for the Germans. Hell to the Führer...
...Heroism and sacrifice sprouted richly in the green mountains of Yugoslavia. With them the tares of pain, hunger and disease grew too. They maimed men's bodies and spirits, crippled Marshal Tito's guerrilla army. Last week, from two firsthand reports, direct word of this suffering came to the Allies...
...over-heroism of Mr. Penn, his challenging decisions to give up his high position in society and devote his time to his "brothers," however high the sentiment, set the audience in laughs. Melodramatic, too saintly for belief, the picture was one of those in which there wasn't a louse...