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...most Americans, the cold meant neither horror nor heroism...
Lafayette here becomes a tale of high heroism, not by the marquis but by his quiet, self-effacing wife Adrienne. As relatives were falling to the guillotine all around her and the family's assets were confiscated, she responded with Fayettesque valor. Briefly imprisoned, Adrienne found food and housing for her family, began caring for destitute friends-including her husband's mistress-and waged a vigorous letter-writing campaign to win his freedom...
...short for the Marine motto Semper Fidelis (Always Faithful). Reagan was so moved by the account that he repeated Kelley's words verbatim during his televised speech last week. Added Reagan: "It says more than any of us could ever hope to say about the gallantry and heroism of these young...
...biographer. Johnson regards her subject without illusion. She knows that inspiration can arrive and vanish without cause and that Hammett's chief tragedy was in holding himself accountable for something beyond his gifts or character. Even so, as she sees it, he showed a streak of heroism, not in his work so much as in "the long blank years that prove the spirit." That kind of exit line is equal to the worst of Hammett's life-and the best of his work...
William Hunter, a third year law student who helped organize the recent Law School forums attacking the U.S. invasion of Grenada, last week criticized Marine recruitment for luring disadvantaged students with appeals of heroism. "The same Administration that has no concern for minorities or the poor gets them to do the dying," he added...