Word: valor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First Blood made $57 million at the box office, a substantial though not spectacular success. Since then the public's receptivity to tales that lend nobility to the Viet Nam War has grown. Films like Missing in Action and Uncommon Valor, both of them about missions to rescue American POWs in Viet Nam, drew big audiences. On TV, Viet Nam veterans, once portrayed as troubled loners, are now the sympathetic crime fighters of such hit shows as The A-Team and Magnum, P.I. First Blood scored unusually high ratings in a telecast on NBC last month, and orders for video...
From what I've seen, both in editorials and in editorial cartoons, and in the comments immediately after the Westmoreland withdrawal, the impression I got was that everybody understood that Westie decided that discretion was the better part of valor and he decided to cut his losses...
...controversial reworking of revered texts. But his new theater's premiere, directed by Timothy Mayer, is if anything too faithful and tame. Shakespeare's play depicts a civil war brought about by a usurper King and the self-serving pretenders to his throne. Some productions emphasize the martial valor of the King's ablest rival, Hotspur; others exult in the merriment and dissipation of the Prince of Wales' favorite companion, Falstaff. The closest that Mayer comes to taking a point of view is to underline the play's presumption that history is made by men, not social forces: he ends...
Facing 40,000 roaring youths at a Caracas stadium last week, Pope John Paul II asked, "Will Venezuela's youth have the valor to be true Christians?" The crowd shouted, "Si." "And will they have the valor to construct a more just society?" Again a thundering "Si." "More fraternal and more peaceful?" Once more a booming affirmation...
...pegs, he suggests, began in school with tales of bold Westerners challenging sinister enchanters in the East. The heroes of antiquity, the knights-errant and the pathfinders of empire, symbolized virtues that quickened young hearts. But mercantile Britain offered few opportunities for a romantic. "Where was the use of valor and a knowledge of Xenophon and all the rest of the accoutrements?" Glazebrook inquires. "He had put on knight's armor to play croquet...