Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lenin turned from a peaceful student into a fiery revolutionist after the czarist police killed his brother. In detail, the authors unfold the subsequent chain of tragedies: Lenin's minority-party power grab in 1917, Stalin's further perversion of Marxist ideals. Russia's nationalistic heroism in World War II and its postwar imperialism, the chilling struggle for Kremlin power after Stalin's death, and the sharp differences among Communist countries. Adlai Stevenson praises the book for its "new insights" and "fresh, factual appraisal...
Eventually, the big naval guns in the hay decided the battle, knocking out one German emplacement after another. Heroism in the hills helped. Under heavy fire, an American sergeant maneuvered his antitank gun to the top of a ridge, demolished six tanks in half an hour. A British major given up for lost behind enemy lines reappeared with an enemy halftrack in tow, plus an 88-mm. gun and a dozen prisoners. A fiery British commando lieutenant colonel named Jack Churchill,* waving a sword in one hand, took 30 prisoners singlehanded. When an admiring if puzzled superior asked...
...force his way past. Ruddy-faced Marshal McShane, 53, is a formidable man. He won the Golden Gloves welterweight championship of New York City back in 1930, and he has since added many pounds of solid flesh. He is also a brave man who won several citations for heroism during his years as a New York cop. But he was outnumbered 20 to 1 by the troopers, some of them pretty husky too, and his scufflings with them were utterly futile, merely adding a dash of absurdity to the proceedings...
...Durie was 30, separated and soon to be divorced from Desloge. The two were linked romantically in at least one society column. Wrote the New York World-Telegram's Charles Ventura on Jan. 20, 1947: "Jack (John F.) Kennedy, who won the Navy's highest award for heroism by swimming through a sea of flame to rescue two of his PT boat crew, has just been voted another outstanding decoration. Palm Beach's cottage colony wants to give [him] its annual Oscar for achievement in the field of romance . . . giving Durie Malcolm Desloge the season...
...thing, the hero's heroism looks less heroic every minute. No doubt he was moved by a generous impulse when he offered to rescue the President; but he was also moved by a merely conventional sympathy for the underdog, by a sentimental horror of violence, by a hysterical temptation to escape from his miserable self. What's more, an admirable act has not made him admirable; he is still silly and incompetent, and when he isn't barking at her mechanically he still wriggles with lap-dogged devotion for the bitch he is tied...