Word: heroisms
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...York seems ready for good Brecht. The Wall, by Millard Lampell, is a good reminder of the Nazi atrocities, but it is too reminiscent of Diary of Anne Frank in style and tone. Moreover, the hero is finally convinced of the necessity of resistance by a spirit of mystical heroism, rather than by the wall at his back. It seems as if Lampell wanted to have his historical cake and eat his emotional...
...hero is conscious not of the presence but the absence of God, not of the nearness but the distance of divine grace, not of the order but the absurdity of God's universe. Obsessively self-abased, the religious hero is a man of little faith, and his heroism is to know...
...what two managers were doing: "Uniforms of all sorts, medical equipment, and trophies preserved for generations, were consumed by the flames. But the most valuable articles in the building--a large part of the medical records and the Evert Jansen Wendell trophies--were rescued, and this through the heroism of two undergraduates, H.T. Wagstaff '32 and P.M. Whitman '32, track manager candidate and assistant football manager, respectively...
...Free French agent himself during World War II and spent two years in a Vichy prison after he mistook an enemy for a De Gaulle man. So Boulle knows the background of his latest non-hero, Lieut. Cousin, an intellectual, successful novelist and critic, who has delusions of heroism even as his unit is put to rout by the Germans. Running away, he still sees himself stemming the retreat, and when he reaches England in a small boat, he has no trouble seeing himself as an intelligence man who can confound the enemy. His boss, a psychiatrist in civilian life...
...studies." In the closing months of the war, Second Class Seaman Kennedy served aboard the newly commissioned destroyer Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (named for his brother, who died in an airplane explosion over the English Channel). But though Joe died for his country in Europe, and Jack's heroism in the Solomons became a great wartime tale of the South Pacific, Bobby's naval service consisted of six dismal months in the Caribbean, spent mostly scraping paint, with no sign of the enemy...