Word: heroisms
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...learned, moreover, that resistance need not be heroic. In fact, it is the identification of resistance with heroism that made for such pessimism about the march of totalitarianism. Why? Because few are capable of heroism. And when heroism meets well-armed tyranny -- and totalitarians specialize in armament -- it loses. That was the lesson of Hungary 30 years...
...lesson of the 30 years since is that humanity in all its ordinariness and contrariness is more corrosive to the totalitarianism ideal than heroism. There is too much to control. Not even the technology of repression can keep up with all the private wants and longings that move people to everything from religious faith to sullen cynicism...
...Gorgeous George of mid-cult music. As Michael Herr observes in his new book The Big Room, "Never before, at least knowingly, had a man ever had the big steel balls to show himself like that, and on television." The slurs must have hurt Liberace, but his blithe heroism became a '50s catchphrase: "I cried all the way to the bank...
...this afternoon will require a great effort from all of them--along the same luck and heroism Harvard showed last year against Brown in its dramatic 25-17 come-from-behind victory...
...plot of "Crocodile" Dundee is hardly more than an updated version of The Country Mouse and the City Mouse mixed in with the comic heroism of Raiders of the Lost Ark and the exotic landscape photography of The Gods Must be Crazy. Mick "Crocodile" Dundee (Hogan) is an Australian adventurer who agrees to an interview with Susan, a visiting reporter from New York (newcomer Linda Kozlowski...