Word: heroisms
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...spiders, and endless spider webs, gnats, buzzing silence, rain and sunlight, golden sand and indigo trees-a nightmare in which one after another is killed. What deepens the irony is that the campaign is successful without the benefit of either General Cummings' strategy or the heroism of the platoon...
Russian Novelist llya Ehrenburg, who a few years ago won a Stalin Prize (currently worth $18,862), won it all over again with The Storm, a novel about Russia's wartime heroism and the Allies' rapaciousness. Dramatist Konstantin Simonov, whose The Russian Question (about corrupt U.S. journalism) won him a Stalin Prize last year, got none this time-but prizes went to the men who made a movie of his play...
Arthur W. ("One-Man Army") VVer-muth, who moved from wartime heroism to peacetime girl trouble to obscurity, reappeared in the news on skates, looking like a one-man hockey team (see cut). He was now taking a flier at goaltending for a semi-pro team in Wichita...
...usual, Danny Kaye is really the whole show. His straight patter numbers (the most ambitious is Symphony for Unstrung Tongue) seem a little less funny as the years go by; but his dreamlife parodies of heroism are in every sense out of this world...
...they would have lived out their lives drinking soda pop. And had our nation of Americans been Germans, Andrew Cooper among them, we would have divided just as inevitably into Gestapomen and victims, a few of us heroes. It was history which exposed or concealed our capacities for brutality, heroism or cowardice. . . . History was the litmus paper...