Word: valores
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Choosing discretion over valor, Farber and his paper finally decided to hand over the manuscript to Judge William Arnold, who is trying the Jascalevich case. Arnold accepted the book, commenting that it might make "interesting reading." Surprisingly, Jascalevich's attorney, Raymond Brown, initially objected to Farber's offer, saying that he is after the notes, not the book. But some wonder about his motives as well. It has been suggested that Brown does not really want to see Farber's notes, knowing that they are actually useless to his case. He just wants Farber to refuse...
...Sweet Banana. The song is a tribute to troopies like themselves "who fight with bravery-and win." A white businessman, surveying the scene, remarked, "Right now the only black man who could survive in this place would have to be at least a sergeant major -with a citation for valor in the Rhodesian army." A few miles away, in the black township of Harari, a well-known black entertainer named Thomas Mapfumo mimicked the marching style of the Rhodesian soldiers. Then he brought down the house with a rendition of Send Your Children to War, a song clearly sympathetic...
Foote told of the Confederate valor. Of General Armistead, who, with his hat on his saber, reached for the muzzle of a Union cannon, then fell with mortal wounds. He told of retreat. A young Southerner going down the slope walked backward so he would not be hit in the back. Robert E. Lee met his men with tears in his eyes to tell them it was his fault. "He pretty much told the truth," said Carter, pondering the lapses of judgment that are now attributed to Lee, who was almost superhuman in all other ways, in most other places...
...theme of Creve Coeur, finally, is valor. Toward the end of the play, Dorothea says, "We must pull ourselves together and go on, go on - that's all life seems to offer or demand." That has always been Tennessee Williams' credo, and he is scarcely likely to abandon...
...with Dwight D. Eisenhower. "She admittedly fell absolutely in love with him. That part is dealt with in the movie, but mostly through implication," says Remick. As for Ike's feelings about Kay, word is that the movie may well conclude that discretion is the better part of valor when treating old comrades-in-arms...