Word: heroisms
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...comic-strip heroes "rolled into one bundle" and a full-fledged satire on many of them. For example, when the police commissioner begged Steel to give up his spectacularly successful amateur detective work so that the police would have a chance to catch some crooks themselves ("Heroism at its greatest! To suffer silently without reward"), Stainless reluctantly agreed, rented a room in a quiet boarding house to rest. Not till three weeks later did he realize that his fellow boarders were all crooks, finally went to work and bagged them...
Also given the nation's highest award posthumously last week for heroism in Korea were...
...replace Representative Douglas Stringfellow, who withdrew from the race in his district after confessing that his oft-told story of war heroism was a hoax, Utah Republicans last week nominated Henry Aldous Dixon, popular president of Utah State Agricultural College...
...living model for Colonel John Sartoris, one of the central figures in the Jefferson Sags, and in the figure of Faulkner himself, painfully dedicated to the labor of reproducing this family legend, lies a clue to the Reverend High tower of Light in August and the obsession with ancestral heroism which he carried with him even to the pulpit...
...make of the Crusades. At best, they speak of a "miracle of faith," at worst of "blind fanaticism" mixed with greed. The word crusade is becoming fashionable again, but few 20th century men can imagine a faith as real, natural and all-inclusive as life itself, so that heroism and villainy, love and war, passion for God and passion for politics could all find room...