Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into Cambodia. The American 1st Air Cavalry, which took some 240 dead and 470 wounded in the largest U.S. weekly casualty list since the Korean War, remained in charge of the field. With the guns silent, the men themselves grew talkative, recalling the vivid episodes of humor, horror and heroism that the weeks of wild fighting had etched in their minds...
...Stateside Americans have been altogether aware of the scope and savagery of the war in Viet Nam, or even perceived how deep in the thick of things their nation is there. Despite all the headlines, all the vignettes of heroism and horror, all the demonstrations and counterdemonstrations in the U.S. itself, the average American, cushioned by prosperity and a span of 8,500 miles, has found it hard to realize that the struggle in Southeast Asia is indeed a war. But it is-and that fact was driven home last week as never before when a fresh, division-strength Communist...
Other fans find a reassuring permanence in the ever familiar opera repertory. Still others are attracted because in a mechanized, computerized world, opera offers escape into a realm of heroism-which is another way of saying individualism. Perhaps they come because, in the words of Langdon Van Norden, president of the Metropolitan Opera Guild, "they are madmen! Madmen all!" But the dividing line between madness and love is unclear, and they come, above all, because they love the musical form of poetry, the amalgam of arts, that is opera. By joining words and music, sight and sound, opera enables...
...superior intensity of musical expression making the opera far more real than the play." In Mozart's Don Giovanni, probably the greatest opera ever written, the Don, to judge from the text alone, could be just a playboy or an obsessive lecher. What gives him nobility and heroism, what defines him as not simply a lecher but a rebel against God, is Mozart's music. "An F-sharp doesn't have to be considered in the mind; it scores a direct hit," Leonard Bernstein points out. "Think of King Lear in an opera...
...TIMES'S cover story (April 23) on the American fighting man, Risner, commanding officer of the 67th Tactical Fighter Squadron ("The Fighting Cocks"), led scores of air strikes over North Viet Nam and was called back to the Pentagon briefly to receive the Air Force Cross for heroism. After the ceremony, Air Force Chief of Staff John P. McConnell told Risner, a part-Cherokee from Tulsa: "Now goddam mit, Robbie, don't go back out there and get your tail shot...