Word: heroisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London's Auxiliary Fire Service, starting from scratch, has developed a talent for heroism. But its members had other talents to begin with. Some of them were shown last fortnight...
...combined in almost psychopathic harmonies, leap out wildly from the rest of the orchestra and then immediately subside into nothing but troubled mutterings. The famous sheep episode employs muted brasses to suggest the bleating of the sheep, and further on, open trombones play a familiar role as narrators of heroism, in this case mock-heroism...
...nominate as Man of the Year Mr. Average Citizen of London. It seems to me the heroism of the English people will exert a more important influence on history than will the contributions of any single individual...
...nations which reject that belief, the latter have no alternative but resistance. If that resistance stirs up unedifying emotions, the same thing could be said of the feelings aroused in the innocent victims of any catastrophe--not only the emotions of fear and terror, but even those of exalted heroism, which, however admirable, inevitably disturb the desirable tranquility of normal life...
...suspenders), run for the engines, and are speeding away with screaming sirens in less than a minute. The visitor, impressed by the leisure of the station, often forgets this other part of the fireman's life: the midnight alarm, the race through crowded or icy streets, and the calm heroism obscured by heavy smoke. He forgets that there are always a couple of the men doing their loafing in the Cambridge City Hospital and that from an occasional one of the 1800 alarms the engines answer each year some fireman doesn't return...