Word: heroisms
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...Homeric view of man, Huxley stated, attributed both evil and heroism to "possession" by supernatural forces. When a man erred or when he accomplished some feat of great valor, the ancient Greeks believed that he was visited by spirits from the gods, who inspired...
...grown up surrounded by sweet, long-suffering mothers and avuncular lieutenants, with hardly a Nazi in sight. But these scenes from the boys' past merely serve as counterpoint to the adventure at the bridge and as clues to the variety of boyish responses, which range from terror to heroism. Gregor's bitter little novel labors no point, nor does it have to. The futility it illustrates would have been depressing enough even if it had been grown men who held the bridge. Its special dimension of bitterness grows, without overstatement, from the fact that children suddenly forced into...
Home in the U.S., the missionaries had tales of horror as well as heroism. "They beat up our daddies,'' said ten-year-old David Ellis, whose father and mother were among three U.S. Baptist missionary families at Nsona Mpangu, 160 miles from Leopoldville. "They made them lie on the ground and marched all over them.'' Yet again and again, the missionaries reported, African Christians risked their own lives to protect their white brethren...
Citation: "[He has] arrested and moved the heart of a nation unhappily short in personal heroism...
...mentioned "my father" he raised a storm of applause.Roosevelt even addressed his listeners as "my friends," and said of Kennedy: "He hates war." (In a below-the-belt attack on Humphrey's in voluntary 4-F status in World War II, Roosevelt praised Kennedy's war heroism, said that Humphrey "is a good Democrat, but I don't know where he was in World War II.") Across the state, Humphrey got the message, began salting his speeches with the magic name - and getting the same thunderous response...