Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Favorite Wheels. The stage for the climactic Washington conference was set in the picturesque town of Angra do Heroísmo (Bay of Heroism) in the Azores, where Nixon met with French President Georges Pompidou. Pompidou traveled stylishly to the Azores in his favorite set of wheels: a supersonic Concorde jetliner. Nixon was impressed with this symbol of Europe's new strength, remarking, "I only wish we had made the plane ourselves...
...early last week that India would become the first government to recognize Bangladesh. Still, members thumped their desks, cheered loudly and jumped in the aisles to express their delight. "The valiant struggle of the people of Bangladesh in the face of tremendous odds has opened a new chapter of heroism in the history of freedom movements," Mrs. Gandhi said. "The whole world is now aware that [Bangladesh] reflects the will of an overwhelming majority of the people, which not many governments can claim to represent...
Straw Dogs is Sam Peckinpah's first film without a hero. It is indeed his first film to challenge the very ideal of heroism around which his work so far has been built. In Ride the High Country (1961), his main characters were two aging lawmen who could not, even when they tried, abandon their own code of honor. By the time of The Wild Bunch (1969), the main characters had turned into a ragged troop of bandits, but the code persisted. It was their adherence to a suicidal notion of dignity that made these outlaws heroes despite themselves...
Happy Birthday, Wanda June is a softcore satire on the trappings and traditions of heroism. The hero, Harold Ryan (Rod Steiger), is part Odysseus, part Hemingway. Returning home after eight years of adventuring, he finds that in his absence his wife Penelope (Susannah York) has acquired a college degree, worldly wisdom and two dreary suitors (George Grizzard and Don Murray...
Ryan fulminates against the inconstancy of women and the obsessive cowardice he sees sapping the strength of contemporary America. Penelope drops hints about "heroism and its sexual roots." Finally it is revealed that Ryan's breast-beating is a cover-up for persistent psychosexual anxiety. That is the sort of pop-psych insight that might make an acceptable reply from the agony columnist on a local paper. It emphatically does not do much to hold a play-or a movie-together...