Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...known in Spanish transliteration) was a great soul as well as a great soldier. "This man," wrote a Moslem chronicler, "was by his clear-eyed force, his strength of spirit and heroism, a miracle of the Almighty...
General della Rovere takes a long look at cowardice and heroism in "difficult times." These times are the last days of the German occupation of northern Italy where a bewildered civilian population is plagued by Allied air-raids and Nazi terrorism. Here Rossellini's cameras are most effective. Surveying the common misery they discover it in a simple heroism and solidarity. A brilliant sequence shows original films of an air-raid followed by shots of a resigned populace beginning to dig its way out of the rubble. Suddenly from behind a ruined wall Bardone appears, well-dressed, but detached...
...plot traces the moral ascendancy of Bardone to a heroism which, Rossellini-implies, all men can display in these difficult times. Arrested by the Germans, Bardone is planted among political prisoners as the Badoglian General della Rovere with the object of fingering the leader of the Resistance. Confronted and idolized by the genuine heroes of the Underground, Bardone recognizes the extent of his own cowardice and moves gradually to the determination that he must die with them...
Candy-Man. The most memorable of the Southern stories are harsher. There is Candy-Man Beechum, the epitaph to a huge Negro mule skinner's quirky heroism. Loping happily along to visit his Saturday-night girl, Candy-Man is shot down by a deputy, just because the deputy feels like it. Candy-Man says that the deputy shouldn't have done that. The deputy says to shut up or he will pull out his gun again and hurry Candy-Man along. "If that's the way it's to be," the dying man says back...
Mayenne Worries. In North Carolina, Maggie McRacken packed away her husband's Distinguished Service Cross and the messages from generals and the President. She worked hard, saw her daughter Myrtis Ann, graduate from high school last June. A quiet woman, Mrs. McRacken seldom mentioned her husband's heroism or Mayenne's continued devotion to his memory. Her employer had never even heard the story. But recently a friend got the Charlotte Observer interested. People throughout North Carolina contributed more than $1,500 to send Mrs. McRacken and Myrtis Ann to Mayenne...