Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consequence of heroism, all too often, is an ego-rending compulsion to continue in a larger-than-life role, a task at which few succeed. Murphy was no exception. Faced with the need to translate acts of valor into a lifetime of virtue, he had nowhere to go but down. When his body was found last week in the crash of a light plane outside Roanoke, Va., Murphy, 46, left behind a promise that had dissolved unheroically into business failures, run-ins with the law and forgettable parts in forgettable movies...
...young cadets-247 in all-marched 80 miles in four days through rain and mud before the battle at New Market. They plunged into battle and acquitted themselves admirably. The North was defeated, but V.M.I, paid its toll: ten were killed and 47 wounded. Their youthful heroism even spawned a poem by one Irving Bacheller...
...Tito's regime. But the book is not concerned with contemporary events. It re-creates the clash between Serbian and Moslem in Djilas' native Montenegro in the late 19th century. Djilas lost much of his own family in this incessant warfare; he grew up on legends of heroism and endurance...
Othello is a poet in uniform, a dreamer on the field of combat, but never rude or crude-which Jones tends to forget. The Moor is not the toughest boy in the barracks but a man obsessed by romance, heroism and honor. He dwells in images and on them. Even in the act of suicide, he summons up an image of how he once smote a circumcised dog of a Turk. His love of Desdemona is a kind of image of love. His heart breaks when lago tarnishes that image, long before Desdemona herself is actually destroyed. Neither Olivier...
Although Crow offers no letup in the agony and gore, it should win Hughes a new and wider following. In it he parcels out human history and legend in a succession of charnel-house episodes. The Garden of Eden, Oedipus, St. George, all our prototypes of beauty, heroism and love, are reduced to so much pulsing, thrashing sinew, murderously intent on survival. A harsh and one-sided view, to be sure, yet difficult to deny. The headlines are on its side. Hughes is too cunning a craftsman to try to convey his vision in headlines or rant of any kind...