Word: heroisms
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...COMMONLY noted paradox that war, perhaps the basest of human activities, seems to bring out the best and noblest human qualities: self-lessness, heroism, sacrifice and comradeship. In time of war, soldiers throw themselves on grenades to save their buddies. Civilians willingly endure hardships that they would never accept in peacetime. Even anti-war author Erich Maria Remarque, in All Quiet on the Western Front, praised the "great brotherhood...arising out of the midst of danger, out of the tension and forlorness of death...
...Hispanic background to declare himself an Indian and denounce the conquerors for raping and enslaving "our people" -- the ultimate, perhaps, in expropriation. Conservative prelates of the Latin American Catholic bishops' conference (CELAM), which will meet in Santo Domingo in 1992, are pushing for an anniversary declaration that stresses the heroism of missionaries who tried to defend the Indians from conquistadorial cruelty. But CELAM will also sponsor a "people's tribunal" of minority representatives and leftist adherents of liberation theology, who propose to pass judgment on 500 years of European conquest...
...throughout the U.S. "I know this music can work," he says. "To play it, you have to have the belief in quality. And the belief in practice, the belief in study, belief in your history, belief in the people that you came out of. It is a statement of heroism against denigration...
...PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD. How near in time, and how far in world view, is the village life portrayed in J.M. Synge's masterpiece about ignorant peasants and their perverse notions of heroism, all of it a sly satire on the yearning of oppressed colonies to break free. The finest Irish drama of the 20th century, it is discerningly performed by the Abbey Theater of Dublin, at Washington's Kennedy Center through Oct. 21, then in St. Louis, Tucson and Ann Arbor, Mich...
Jennings, like Hitchcock and the best of Spielberg's heroes, is an ordinary man driven to heroism only because of unusual circumstances. He is the reluctant hero seeking to protect his family and his newly adopted hometown, motivations which make the flimsly premises supporting this summer's blockbusters seem far-fetched and ludicrous in comparison. Rather than a series of explosions, shatterings of plate glass, or sickening gore, Arachnophobia uses the little things one can't take for granted today, believable characters and good old-fashioned fear, to keep your attention...