Word: heroisms
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...press and American people. Watergate has aroused a necessary critical spirit in this country, and that is well and good. But in the last year there have been events that touched us more intensely, events that touched us more intensely, events that live in our memories because of the heroism of their actors or the tragedy in which they ended--heroism and tragedy which the Watergate scandals, for all their absorbing melodrama, have never approached...
Like other military men who have served as White House aides, Haig was chosen because he was something more than a general. Though he served in combat in Korea and Viet Nam and was decorated for heroism, he spent most of his career as a military organization man, a position in which he was unexcelled. He finished a lackluster 214th in a class of 310 at West Point, but he advanced rapidly through the Army and Navy war colleges and received a master's degree in international relations at Georgetown University. During the Kennedy Administration, he was named deputy...
...today's politics - presumably such things as international interdependence, vastly increased communications, and resources for popular resistance - would prevent another Hitler from achieving such singular power. A comforting thought, if true. But time is long and virtue fleeting. Men's capacity for evil-as well as for heroism-does not seem to change...
...This really wins the prize. I never said this insane garbage, if I had I'd deserve the Masochist of the Year award. What did inspire me was the tremendous spirit of people during the bust. Unlike foxes being chased by hounds, it was a tremendous, collective sort of heroism, with everyone much more concerned about each other and about the issues than about ourselves. Locked inside University Hall, ready for the cops on the morning of the bust, we knew we were right. We'd been organizing against ROTC for months. We'd studied Harvard's expansion plans, talked...
...catastrophe doesn't rule out heroism--in fact, even Colonel Quoc has his moments of humanity. "I'm not really so terrible," he tells an American colleague. "Sometimes when I pass a beggar I don't spit, and maybe even give him a coin." Fighter Kim, tortured by Americans determined to find out who blew up their friends the week before, strangles a companion whose capacity for resistance he doubts, slits his own wrists and lies down quietly to die. And Grandmother Pan survives the catastrophe to rummage among the rubble for her husband's legs. Maybe in certain circumstances...