Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million so far this model year, partly because of publicity about accident suits. Ford Motor can scarcely produce enough Mustangs and Lincolns to meet demand, but its Comet is a disappointment, and the compact Falcon is 13% behind last year's sales. At Chrysler, the compact Dart and Valiant are down, but the big Chrysler is doing well, the intermediate Plymouth Belvedere is up and the intermediate Coronet has surged 36% for the model year, best gain in the industry. American Motors is beginning to see some sunshine; after slipping for months, sales rose from 18,000 in January...
Anyone with even a superficial knowledge of existentialism and Marxism can sense a basic incompatibility between the two dogmas. Jean-Paul Sartre is making a valiant attempt to embrace them both. The Condemned of Altona--written a few years before the Critique of Dialectical Reason, Sartre's futile attempt at reconciliation--reflects the tension that has resulted. To this philosophical mixture is added a complicated plot and allegory on the Algerian War, which was raging when the play was written. (The name of the hero, a former Nazi officer who was the "Butcher of Smolensk" is Frantz, rhymes with France...
Harvard manager Jeff Friedman illegally fenced three bouts in foil when one Crimson foil man failed to show up. Despite valiant courage and sterling form. Friedman dropped all his bouts...
There are, of course, plenty of white hats. It seems to help greatly in these books to be a friend of the author's. Adlai Stevenson is an ever-valiant fighter, winning commendation from the President every chapter or two. Of Robert Kennedy, Schlesinger writes that "I do not know of any case in contemporary American politics where there has seemed to me a greater discrepancy between the myth and the man." Averell Harriman is the lone guerilla fighter standing up for truth in the State Department...
Report to Greco repeats some of the incidents from these books almost verbatim. In particular, it illuminates Zorba the Greek. Now, the movie version to the contrary, Zorba does not merely discuss flesh (Good) and spirit (Bad). Rather, it exalts the impulsive, the "valiant preposterous act" (Report to Greco) over the Buddha-like espousal of the peace with which becomes the Nothing. Report to Greco shows just how much of Zorba's joie de vivre was in Nikos Kazantzakis...