Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...always saints in their love life, in their life as parents or as children of parents, or even in the friendships of normal life. In other words, they are human and full of faults, and I think that doesn't make the political intensity any less or the heroism any less...
...high road, paved by Graham Greene and improved by John le Carre, led to an entirely new kind of literature. The books no longer echoed of national anthems. Instead they suggested T.S. Eliot's Gerontion: "Think/ Neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices/ Are fathered by our heroism. Virtues/ Are forced upon us by our impudent crimes...
...town first and Confederate second -- even third. Similarly, the author's narrators are perceptive misfits who just happen to be gay. "I've got an extra tenderness. It's not legal," is the laconic observation of one homosexual who is attracted to a pornography fan. In the story Minor Heroism, an artistic child grows up under the disapproving eye of an emotionally remote war-hero father, a parent described forcefully as "sheer rock-facing...
While the generals direct the fighting, the President must direct the theater. Recently, Bush has missed no opportunity to cast the war in moral terms and has rarely been so eloquent as when expressing his conviction that this is a fight between good and evil. To focus on the heroism of allied forces and the villainy of Saddam Hussein lends the story line a moral clarity that Vietnam utterly lacked. "Our patriotic impulse is also a moral impulse," says Professor John Schutz, who teaches a history course at the University of Southern California called "Patriotism and the American Spirit...
...heart and, on screen at least, a sexual equality of emotion and intelligence. Movies were about grownups; the toy-boy heroes stayed in comic books. Maybe audiences were more mature too. These days, Ghost and Pretty Woman are the big-hit exception, not the norm; moviegoers tend to measure heroism in terms of pectorals. Somewhere ! between Rambo and bimbo, between roles for children (the only age group in which the movies employ more females than males) and the over-40 wasteland, lies the precarious terrain where fine young actresses can do fine work. Just now that acreage is the property...