Word: heroisms
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...twelve years old, and therefore cannot judge the desirability of the memorial. Were it not a fair answer to show that after all the alumni, who were mature at the time of the war, and who would now contribute toward the memorial, are not intending to commemorate the heroism of the dead so much for those who personally knew them, as for the many generations through which the memorial will stand? We believe ourselves to be in closer touch with these generations than are the alumni. Furthermore, they are building a church where not they, but we, and the future...
...mother of a grown dolt launches him on a literary career by publishing her own work under his name. The son's character does not change, but the mother is much happier. Again: A dullish Mr. Mellish, given to heroine-worship, is taught his wife's heroism. An over-intense beauty kills two husbands with her love and ambition for them. . . . The normal living pitch implied by Miss Ertz reminds one of Bertrand Russell's "good life." But just to show what she can imagine, a horror story is also included, blacker than bats...
...youth. His one love affair founders on his poverty before it is launched. His friends are a kindly, resigned fatalist, and a mad painter who drags him to hear opera from the top gallery. His sensitive nature is sickened by the War and after the misery of heroism he experiences peacetime betrayal by crass noncombatants. This wistfulness may irritate some U. S. readers, used to two-fisted, hammer-and-tongs irony. Clerks who cheat and win under our system must brag about it later to ring true. Our politicians are colorful or they are nothing. Not so in France. There...
Only a genuine joy-killer would point out that passing examinations is only the routine duty of students in every college, and not a feat of heroism calling for an extraordinary reward. It would be a useless effort on the part of the joy-killer, at that. There is among most of the student body after every examination period, a feeling that they have studied harder than ever, and that they deserve a high grade, whether or not they receive it. It is better to celebrate, by all means, while this righteous mood endures, than to wait for the cold...
...object of such a monument (a war memorial) is to render honor to the dead, to precerve their memory, and remind those who come after of their heroism. The advantage of a Church or chapel is that one enters it in a spirit of reverence, and a church, therefore, adds something to the solemnity of a memorial, and this en-enhances the object sought...