Word: heroisms
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...emergency opens up all the reservoirs of fear. The answer to fear is action. In some women it becomes an obsession, with a strong sense of guilt and the need to sacrifice themselves in the general cause. Their suffering and heroism may be intense. They seek jobs at the battlefronts, often try to forget their fear by drinking and sexual promiscuity. In other women the reaction is hysterical, involving rebellion against authority, especially against mothers. They are driven to seek experience, including sexual dangers...
...over Wake Island and tore into the Jap naval force creeping over the horizon. In that pitiful and heroic last stand the Marine flyers set one enemy ship afire, sank a cruiser. Said a presidential citation: "The courageous conduct . . . will not be forgotten as long as gallantry and heroism are respected and honored...
...faithful to fact could have been much more true. And Cecil B. De Mille has great respect for fact. But he is a born romancer, a highly experienced showman, and old-fashioned in both fields. His talents, as well as his limitations, conspire to turn a saga of simple heroism into a typical Hollywood entertainment feature. But they also hamper this picture as simple entertainment...
...well worn theme of the criminal turned patriotic is always a good sound plot for the theater. It can readily be given new twists as the recent "Passage to Marseille" and the present "Uncertain Glory" show; yet the basic ingredient of heroism remains to please the public. The title of this opus is deceptive, for by the end of the picture the hero's glory is as certain as Hollywood can make it, and they have been in the hero-making business for some years...
...since January the Germans had turned back whatever Allies-New Zealanders, Americans, British, Indian Gurkhas-had attempted to drive them out of the town and out of the ancient Benedictine monastery on a nearby hilltop. Said a Nazi general order captured last week: "Cassino has become synonymous with underlying heroism for the Germans. Hell to the Führer...