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...heroism is not always what is required, and SNCC feels it has no interest in getting its summer workers hospitalized. "Absenting oneself," as it is wryly put, is often the best answer to a bad situation. Robert E. Wright '65, who worked in Jackson last summer, found that by keeping calm and using good sense it was possible to avoid explosive confrontations. John W. Perdew '64 reports similar experiences from Americas...
MARINO MARINI - Auslander, 1078 Madison Ave. at 81st. Man-on-horse formed Marini: as a youth he admired Donatello's equestrian Gattamelata, as a man he observed Dictator Benito Mussolini. Combining themes, he carved out a lesser heroism: his sculptures show stumbling horses and fearful men. In this show are some of the sculptures, but twelve lithographs, paired with his wife's poetry, and ten oils on paper show a purer image of horse and rider charging, falling, rising again with more courage than their predecessors. Through April...
...week long, red-eyed citizens wandered through their streets, looking for friends or loved ones, comparing experiences, recounting tales of tragedy and heroism. Soldiers with bayonets patrolled streets or baby-sat with begrimed children who had to be wheedled out of tears with jokes and C rations. Families fortunate enough to have heat, water or electricity opened their doors to the homeless. In the streets of the towns, volunteer workers joined military personnel in the unending job of picking up the pieces. In Seward a 30-ton fishing boat lay incongruously in a patch of woods several hundred yards from...
...Essence of Heroism...
...Tanz Nazi Germany, at least, finds a brilliant embodiment. Although most of the other characters are sketched in only with enough completeness to establish them as sympathetic or not, Tanz is fully and compellingly detailed. Looking like "a painting by someone who had tried to capture the essence of heroism," he is nevertheless subject to strange tics and seizures, inexplicable quirks of behavior; a steely disciplinarian, indifferent to the value of individual lives, he displays exemplary courage and single-minded patriotism. Clearly Tanz is meant to be a mythic, archetypal figure--Herr Kirst even goes so far as to suggest...