Word: heroism
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...attendance, John Brock, who was born in 1943. A corporal born in 1984 received the third slice as the youngest Marine in attendance. A Marine with a traditional officer’s sword, modeled on the Mameluke Sword awarded to a Marine officer by a Turkish viceroy for heroism during the Battle of Tripoli in 1805, sliced the cake. The event, which also drew current and future Marines from other nearby universities and service members from other branches of the military, commenced with a bagpipe performance outside the Spangler Center. “I just love the traditions, love...
...choreographed by Co-Director Rohini S. Rau-Murthy ’08 and set against a music composition by Dwaraki Krishnswami that was specially commissioned for the show. Despite a stereotype of Indian women as passive extensions of their men, women have won legendary victories over men. Spotlighting the heroism of women in India, the drama stayed true to the storytelling roots of traditional Bharatnatyam dance, depicting the Hindu myths of Chamundeshwari Devi, Saavitri, and Obavva. Although Rohini Nair ’08 prefaced each act admirably by reciting summaries of the drama’s parts, multiple complex names...
...Bonaparte captured the composer’s imagination. In 1804, Beethoven wrote a symphony meant to be dedicated to Bonaparte. But after Napoleon shed all pretenses of democracy and crowned himself emperor, the Third Symphony was renamed the “Sinfonia Eroica”—to heroism...
Because of all the chaos that descended on New Orleans, the acts of heroism often took the form of mini-rebellions against the bureaucracy. Richard Zucschlag, head of Acadian Ambulance, the largest ambulance transport company in southern Louisiana, moved his dispatch center to the outskirts of New Orleans, where it became the only communications network in the early hours of the disaster. Then, although Zucschlag's staff is not trained to do triage, he sent 10 ambulance medics to the Superdome while his 40 ambulances and seven helicopters served as the initial rescue force in the city. For 40 hours...
...strain doesn't show onscreen. The film is a colorful ragbag of fairy-tale tropes, with crones peddling apples, a girl in a red riding hood running into a wolf and a vain queen at her magic mirror. Gilliam, who loathes the "juvenile fantasy" of movie heroism, makes the brothers pleasant but oafish; Headey, in a gorgeous, starmaking turn, is the real hero as the fearless witch Angelika. The movie's sense of humor is high-low in the Python style. It alternates the drollery of Jonathan Pryce's French villain (when Will charges, "You killed my friends," Pryce purrs...