Word: heroisms
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...knew the temptations of despair but he resolutely shunned them. Edmund Wilson's death must sadden us for it closes a chapter in our national cultural history that he himself helped write; but it also reinforces our own sense of purpose by throwing into relief a life of quiet heroism and insatiable curiosity...
There are frequent gleams of rough heroism in the murk of violence. Though Eraser's outlaws are notably grubbier, they are still recognizably the same men immortalized in border ballads like Johnnie Armstrang, Kinmont Willie and The Douglas Tragedy. If the clangor of their combat has been long silenced, it nevertheless has some unexpected contemporary resonances. Living at the heart of Liddesdale, the most intractable part of the whole border, and numbered among the toughest of all the reivers was a family named Nixon. · Charles Elliott
Even so, Wilson's story is filled with heroism, excitement and sharp detail that even the dreariest agitprop boiler plate cannot obscure. On the march, reports Mao's batman, "he used to carry his briefcase himself, and the umbrella." Mao's so-called "Eight Additional Rules" for troop conduct included "Put back the doors you use for bedboards" and "Don't bathe in the sight of women." One nagging personnel problem was the German agent known as Li Teh, who annoyed Chou by his "need for female companionship," yet was so big that "small and thin...
...seem to be congratulating them on their new-found machismo. The Cowboys is no investigation of the inherent evil of the young, like Richard Hughes' A High Wind in Jamaica. Nor does it have the awful irony of Peckinpah's Straw Dogs (TIME, Dec. 20), in which heroism turned into savagery. Here savagery is seen as heroism...
STRAW DOGS. Sam Peckinpah's harrowing portrait of heroism turned to animalism as a shy mathematician (Dustin Hoffman) fights off thugs besieging his house...