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There is today no agreed definition of what a hero is. Philosopher Sidney Hook defines a hero as an "eventmaking" man who changes history, like Churchill or Lenin, as distinct from the merely "eventful" man, like Lyndon Johnson (so far) or Charles de Gaulle. "De Gaulle would be an eventmaking man," says Hook, "if he had the power." Yet there are many heroes who did not change events, or who had heroism thrust upon them through accident...
Alloway Went Thataway. Just about every other group was, though (see color pages). In their late-Czarist pavilion, bearing a hammer and sickle, the Russians displayed their usual Soviet pop, in which Lenin portraits are repeated with the regularity and exactitude of Campbell's Soup cans. The Austrians laid claim to some sort of verbiage prize with an entry by one Curt Stenvert. It consisted of a gilded skeleton sharing a glass case with a sexy mannequin, knee high in artificial flowers and covered with photographed tattoos. Title: 38th Human Situation: As a Deceased Tycoon to bequeath your Charming...
Visiting the Far Eastern industrial city of Khabarovsk to present the Order of Lenin to the territory for its economic achievements, he used the occasion to answer the Red Chinese, who claim that huge areas of Russia's eastern provinces, including Khabarovsk, were unjustly seized by the Czars from China in the 19th century and now should be returned to the rightful owner. Not a chance, was Podgorny's defiant reply. He pledged the full support of the Soviet military to defend the area and called on workers and farmers to cooperate with the armed forces "to guard...
...sickly grin: "We're Norwheeguns." Actually the nervous Norsemen are petrified Soviet sailors whose sub has run aground on a sand bar. Their spokesman is Alan Arkin, a cabaret satirist (Second City) and Broadway clown (Luv), making a major movie debut that probably deserves an Oscar, a Lenin Peace Prize, and any other encouragements a wicked old world can offer...
...hours of class' room study. The curriculum is one which might well strike an American gym teacher as impossible if not insane. The students are required to take the following courses: the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; the philosophy of Marx and Lenin; Marxist political economy; the fundamentals of scientific Communism; a foreign language; biochemistry; anatomy, including the dissection of cadavers; the history of pedagogics; the theory of physical culture; the organization of physical culture; and how to run a motion picture projector. After graduation, these young men and women will teach athletics in sports...