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Your interview with Clint Eastwood and your glowing review of his movie Flags of Our Fathers [Oct. 23] disparaged the idea of war heroism at a time when the U.S., in the hard years to come, is going to desperately need heroes and patriots. Although the movie is ostensibly about the World War II battle of Iwo Jima and our government's propaganda campaign around the famous flag-raising photo, Eastwood obviously meant it as a comment on the Iraq war and the cynical machinations of the Bush Administration. I hold no brief for Bush and the Iraq...
...instrument as well.When the Cultural Revolution began a few months later, modern revolutionary opera was promoted over the traditional forms of Chinese opera. According to Rulan C. Pian ’44, professor emerita of East Asian languages and civilizations and of music, the Communist Party replaced the heroism of traditional Chinese opera with nationalism.Zhou started out learning modern pieces, but with the revival of traditional opera after the Cultural Revolution ended, he returned to the music that his father loved. Today, Zhou’s 20-piece repertoire mainly consists of traditional opera.Since Zhou had a late start...
...demonstrated by saving lives, he is putting his life back together after a horrific trauma. Like the great war correspondent Ernie Pyle, Weisskopf chose the heart of the battle zone to profile the armed forces. Anyone who has read Weisskopf's story should be able to appreciate the heroism of our armed forces and veterans. Phillip L. Elbaum Deerfield, Illinois, U.S. I wept when I read Weisskopf's searing and sensitive account of losing his hand in Iraq. In coming to terms with his loss, he realized that he had actually won a prize: the rest of his life...
...essence of heroism--as we understand it in the U.S., at least--dutifulness...
...there any conceivable possibility in the modern world for the assertion of conventional heroism...