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...heroism of the men who fought is all the more tragic because it grew out of such fumbling, and achieved results so far below their hopes. The men who put their names to the petition are determined that blindness, hysteria, and selfishness shall not dominate our thinking again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAY MEN FOUGHT | 5/21/1940 | See Source »

...Lincoln's gaunt figure has stepped out of the homey precincts of the stage and exposed itself to the glamor of inquisitive Klieg lights. But it has forfeited none of its earthy humanity; its shady sides have not been glossed over by a halo of legend and heroism. A classic of the modern American stage, Robert Sherwood's "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" has now become a classic of American moviedom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/3/1940 | See Source »

...Hrdlicka still said No. Commentator Hooton changed his metaphor: "It now begins to appear that the perennial heroism of one Dutch boy at the dyke is likely to prove insufficient to stop the in creasing trickles of fossil man through the geological defenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Horatius at the Bridge | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...utmost type of heroism, which alone is worthy of the name, must be described, merely, as complete self-faithfulness: as integrity. On this level the life of James Joyce has its place, along with Blake's and Beethoven's, among the supreme examples. It is almost a Bible of what a great artist, an ultimately honest man, is, and is up against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Portrait of an Artist | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...gentle things of life. Men support, needless to say, the heaviest and most terrible part of the sacrifice. Nevertheless, I cannot keep myself from pitying the women who want to be brave, but who do not know how, and who must invent, each one for herself, a personal heroism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Hatless Heroism | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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