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...medieval mystics, he strove to pattern his life after Christ's, an ambition that some Swedish critics of Markings chose to interpret as blasphemy or egomania; yet if Markings makes anything clear, it is that Hammarskjöld was a truly humble man: "How far from both muscular heroism and from the soulfully tragic spirit of unselfishness, which unctuously adds its little offering to the spongecake at a kaffeeklatsch, is the plain and simple fact that a man has given himself completely to something he finds worth living...
...samurai code of honor breaks down when they present themselves in turn at the household of one Lord lyi, begging for "a corner of the porch" on which to commit harakiri-a sham heroism often used by ronin to draw out an offer of a job. After the first young warrior's ignoble death is forced upon him, largely as a diversion for the courtly company, a seasoned old fighter Tsugumo (Tatsuya Nakadai) arrives seeking vegeance. The Tragedy unfolds austerely in flashbacks framed by Tsugumo's rather wordy debate with Lord Iyi's chief retainer, whose ridgid...
ZULU. A brisk, bloody, eye-filling adventure inspired by the heroism of 130 British soldiers who fought off 4,000 Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift, Natal...
ZULU. Brisk, bloody, eye-filling adventure inspired by the heroism of 130 British soldiers who fought off 4,000 Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift, Natal...
...leaders who wished to stop Goldwater but did not want to get hurt in the process. Scranton's entry also came after, and in the light of, one of the more ludicrous episodes in the history of the Republican Party, an exercise in ineptness, vacillation and rear-view heroism that nearly reduced the G.O.P. to a laughingstock before the entire nation...