Word: heroisms
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Captain Henrik K. Carlsen's 13 day struggle against the sea which ended in the sinking of his vessel, The Flying Enterprise, was today termed "one of the great stories of heroism on the sea" by Robert G. Albion, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs...
...bound all of Steichen's choices in a LiFE-size catalogue, on sale at the museum for $1, and has let Steichen sum it up thus: "An historical procession where wisdom and nonsense, the ornery and the holy, the poisons of hate and the selflessness of heroism are all written into the visual record of the world we live...
...compels a married couple to abstinence if their union cannot be carried out naturally . . . Do not let yourself be confused when they talk to you of the impossibility of abstinence . . . It is not wrong to expect heroism from the men & women of our times...
Joan's story has been better told elsewhere. The point with Shaw is that he was telling more than a story. One of the play's great virtues is that Shaw looked beyond the pathos and heroism of its events to the magnitude of its issues. He saw Joan, disobeying the church to follow her voices and her vision, as one who, like Luther, could not do otherwise. He saw, too, that in so acting, Joan, like Luther, was no longer Catholic but Protestant. And as her Protestantism is a menace to the church, so her nationalism...
...happen here. It doesn't take much--rousing first page stories of courage and heroism, lousy won-lost records, misdirected journalistic appeals to University spirit, a strong and vocal Alumni . . . it's surprising just how little it takes and how far it goes without ever quite realizing that a line has been crossed or a barricade breasted...