Word: heroisms
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...well, made too many allowances for them, took it on himself to try to shape their characters. This time there was too much stacked against him. Between the overwhelming Chinese, the character flaws of his men and his own protectiveness, the patrol ended in a disaster in which heroism and simple humanity were underscored during a brief stretch of nightmarish combat...
...love for the commonplace and the heroism of Miss Anthony partly inspired the 1946 creation of The Mother of Us All, there were other historically contributing factors. Gertrude S. and Virgil T. had long been thinking independently about the artistic expression of America's 19th century. They met early in the 1920's, quite naturally in Paris, where Gertrude's flock then and later included Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, and Thornton Wilder...
...this unhappy ship all is misery; she becomes a debating society, with the crew arguing their orders and the time and manner of their death. From stoker to captain, everyone is infected with what the British call "the Nelson touch," i.e., an inspired disregard for orders. There is heroism, and men die well in these brutal waters, but the admiral cracks up and wanders crazed in his pajamas...
...back, he reveals his intense inner preoccupation, while his voice has the dull quality of a man despairing and confused. Here again, the playwrights achieve a real triumph in the development of a character, for there is an implication that the major is motivated not only by heroism plain and simple, but by war-guilt which has gradually caused him to adopt a savior complex. Although somewhat less subtle psychologically, Thomas Carlin's rendition of a Second Lieutenant is equally effective...
Abdominal Heroism. At the beginning of World War II, Shinto was both a doctrine and a patriotic duty. Its symbol was the Emperor, who was not actually worshiped (though his ancestors were), but revered for his divine descent and the heavenly sanction of his rule. The Emperor's picture in government buildings was an object of veneration; a classic tradition tells of a schoolboy who, when his school caught fire, rolled up the picture, slashed open his belly, thrust it inside and struggled through the flames to die a hero's death outside. Even as late...