Word: heroisms
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...case? Immediately after the incident--in which a New York citizen shot four Black youths on a subway in "self-defense"--Koch asked New Yorkers not to emulate Goetz's vigilantism. But when the press and public opinion swayed first in favor of Goetz and then against his hypothetical heroism, Koch swayed with them...
...soul of our nation, and, through the pain, our hearts have been opened to a profound truth," said the President. "The future is not free; the story of all human progress is one of a struggle against all odds. We learned again that this America was built on heroism and noble sacrifice. It was built by men and women like our seven star voyagers, who answered a call beyond duty." After paying individual tributes to each member of the crew, the President declared, "Dick, Mike, Judy, El, Ron, Greg and Christa--your families and your country mourn your passing...
...appears first as a silhouette on the African horizon, the dying sun behind him, the very emblem of romantic heroism, standing easy in a lost world. She appears at first in dream-tossed sleep, reinventing him and reimagining the landscape that shaped their love in ways that are perhaps immeasurable...
...apparently loose, formless work that is poetic in its artful selectivity. Scarcely a word is wasted. Hardly an aspect of the struggle to found a new civilization remains untouched. The Tree of Life dramatizes, sometimes with almost unbearable intensity, the American dream and its attendant nightmare. There is the heroism of embattled migrants, some motivated by greed or propped up by drink, others spurred on by a vision of their God's imperative. There is also the tangled, hopeless enmity between the invaders and the natives and between the whites and the blacks who have been made slaves...
...chortling and then fuming. "I think that Watergate is the greatest tragedy this country has ever suffered," he said. "I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember some redeeming features in the Civil War . . . some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate." None? He was forgetting about the clear-sighted, right-minded, good-hearted leadership of Senator Sam Ervin...