Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Biafran, for defending his freedom against impossible odds, demonstrating that the conscience of the world is a figment of some blind optimist's imagination, and for showing the rest of us heroism and determination equal to anything since the fall of Jerusalem to the Romans...
Temple Drake--her friends call her Tempie--came reluctantly to her sudden heroism. She really would have preferred just to endure, stoically accepting the hardships and indignities of Band life, certain in the knowledge that her agony ultimately would end. But her conscience would not let her. She began to lose sleep and weight and she was put on the Undesirable List at the Deke House...
Arias, not Action. The most radical of all these works is The Red Lantern, which recounts the heroism of a family in the Communist underground during the war against Japan. Madame Mao has ordered drastic changes for the production. She has banished the traditional Chinese orchestra of wind and string instruments. The singers merely stand up before a lone grand piano and a percussion section and intone arias ("I Am Filled With Courage and Strength") while the action takes place offstage. The scene is bizarre because only two years ago the piano was condemned as an instrument for "bourgeois spiritual...
...salvation. Three characters in the play indicate Eliot's idea of the two paths to that goal: Celia, a married man's mistress, is guided to a saintly martyrdom ("crucified very near an anthill"); an unhappy couple named Edward and Lavinia are pointed toward the quotidian heroism of accepting their own and each other's shortcomings and simply getting on with their lives...
Author Gilroy clearly identifies with Timmy, but he does not endow him with heroism, nor does he stain the parents with villainy. Nettie can tryannize one moment and pathetically beg $5 house money in the next. John cuffs his son as if he were a schoolboy, but in the end he helps him make the only correct decision-to leave the vortex of rivalry before he gets swept up in its forces and destroyed...