Word: heros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...respected leader, the man to whom all other leaders listen ? in other words, the key to the Arab world today, and thus to peace. He remains for many the embodiment of the ancient Arab dream of Al Umma al Arabia, or unity of all the Arab nations, the hero who threw off foreign domination. He is, above all, the man with whom Israel and the West must deal in seeking a settlement in the Middle East...
Military analysts are just beginning to examine the raw data collected in the study, but the realization that a bit of the hero lurks in every man still amazes the Viet Nam interviewers. Says one veteran Marine sergeant who talked to 200 wounded men: "We had seen this kind of behavior in the movies, and we were trained to do it. I had always thought it was the exception. It is, however, the rule...
Whatever the hero's flaw, great tragedy holds a mirror up to man's virtues. It girds playgoers with borrowed strength by showing how man may bear the unbearable. Great comedy, on the other hand, holds a mirror up to man's follies and vices. Where tragedy argues that man is a marvel, comedy insists that he is a fool. Tragedy elevates; comedy deflates...
...standard, Eliot's Scott Guild was the hero of the day as he won three events and came in second in another. Running in the indoor track bubble because of bad weather, Guild captured the 60-yard dash in 6.4 seconds, the 240-yard run in 27.4 seconds, and the running broad jump with a leap of 19 ft. 7 1/2 in. He also came in second in the high jump behind Kirkland's Mehmed Kayal, who jumped...
Arthur Fidelman-half tragic hero, half Yiddish joke-has ranked among Malamud's finest double characters since he began to appear over a decade ago in assorted short stories. Now Malamud presents him in a brilliant full-length exercise in slapstick Angst...