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...fault of a scared peasant that he fails at both love and anarchy. That is only to be expected. But if Wertmuller had been more sensitive to the incongruous effect she was creating, perhaps his heroism would have been shown in the light of its real tragedy, or at one step removed, its irony...

Author: By --martha Stewart, | Title: Catatonic Assassination | 8/9/1974 | See Source »

...farfetched. Spain marked the end of a peculiar epoch in modern history, a time when intellectuals dared to commit themselves to political causes, to believe passionately in them and to fight for them. It was an heroic era, and Rossif's film is in part a memorial to that heroism. Showings begin at 7 and 9:30, admission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCREEN | 7/19/1974 | See Source »

...attention and our anger. Nor can the efforts of people from all parts of the world to win their freedom fail to stir our hearts. Sam Ervin and Archibald Cox became, with some justification, heroes in the past year. But others involved in the struggle for freedom achieved a heroism that is much greater and more touching than any produced by Watergate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greater and Lesser Crimes | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

Americans should take comfort and inspiration from the struggles of their sisters and brothers throughout the world. But most of all, the people of one area taught us what heroism means. For decades the people of Indochina have fought on--against Japan, against France, against the United States--for the right to live quietly in their own land. The American military had billions of dollars, thousands of tons of bombs, the most up-to-date electronic weaponry. The National Liberation Front and North Vietnam had less sophisticated weaponry and less practiced troops, but they also had a reciprocated faith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greater and Lesser Crimes | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

Americans should take comfort and inspiration from the struggles of their sisters and brothers throughout the world. But most of all, the people of one area taught us what heroism means. For decades the people of Indochina have fought on--against Japan, against France, against the United States--for the right to live quietly in their own land. The American military had billions of dollars, thousands of tons of bombs, the most up-to-date electronic weaponry. The National Liberation Front and North Vietnam had less sophisticated weaponry and less practiced troops, but they also had a reciprocated faith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Melodrama and Tragedy: 1974 | 6/13/1974 | See Source »

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