Word: heroisms
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...said about the athlete with reasonable assurance is not motivated by images and heroism. There are no around Cambridge; with honors is valued winning a letter...
Meanwhile, the enigma. He goes on writing. If you talk of pain, he will sigh. If you talk of heroism, he will smile expansively. If, after this you ask him why he writes, he will probably shrug and keep his silence. What is there to say? Like the rest of us, he is only human. "I write," he says, "because I am miserable if don't write...
Some young Russians look back romantically on the '205 and the "purity" of a revolutionary creed that has somehow dissolved into the cynical conformity of the society they know. Snorted a character in a short story published in Youth Magazine: "Heroism, self-sacrifice! That's what the journalists write about. But look around: what everyone's worrying about is how to grab off more for himself." The young idolize Fidel Castro, whose revolution in their eyes embodies the authentic ideological fervor that has gone from their own. This vision was heightened by Poet Evtushenko, who visited Cuba...
THOM Gunn's third and latest book of poems takes its title from a jaded but "treble-sinew'd" Antony's invitation to "one other gaudy night" before the reeking dishonor of Actium. Insofar as this volume has a central theme, it is a study in types of heroism, which are finally indistinguishable from what Mr. Gunn calls "modes of pleasure." On one side stand the byrnied and terrified warriors of the age of Ethelred and such perennial noblemen of the suicidal beau geste as Claus von Stauffenberg. Different only in degree are the tattooed and/or black-jacketed hoods...
...through the whole ordeal of instant heroism, he continued to display a remarkable modesty and control. In his greetings to his backstage co-workers at Canaveral, Colonel Glenn put his feelings extemporaneously, and in his own fashion: "There is much acclaim for this flight, but it is only one step in a long program. I'd like all of you who worked on it to feel that I am your representative. I'm getting the attention for all the thousands of you who worked...