Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miracle confined to the tiny Jewish homeland. "Israel," says Ben-Gurion, "has created a new image of the Jew in the world?the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism. The state has straightened the backs of Jews in every country." In place of many of the old stereotypes of the Jew emerged a bronzed and bare-chested figure somewhat larger than life: the sabra (native-born Israeli), who took that name from the fruit of the cactus that thrives in his land, a handsome, romantic idealist who furrowed his fields...
...that is what he deserves from a history he malevolently affected? Surely the point is that the author of this filthy act of vampirism deserves the contempt not only of those who would speak no evil of the dead, but of those who applaud such lonely acts of disinterested heroism as were performed by the social philanthropist whose name once graced your masthead...
There are even more embarrassing footnotes. After Pfc. Sadao Munemori was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, the citation of her son's heroism reached Mrs. Munemori behind the barbed wire of a relocation center at Manzanar, Calif. The American Legion canceled the charters of all Japanese American posts. In California in 1942, State Attorney General Earl Warren, campaigning for Governor, urged voters to keep Japanese out of California "so long as the flag of Nippon is flying over the Philippines...
While cab drivers are frequent victims of crime, they are also frequent heroes-tipping off police to fights and robberies and often joining in the pursuit and capture of lawbreakers. Two months ago, while honoring 75 of them for heroism, Police Commissioner Howard Leary called them "the city's second police force...
Though the article lauded their "heroism," the Hills were so upset by the publicity that they charged LIFE with having "fictionalized" their experience to serve "commercial purposes." While accurately reporting the play, they argued, LIFE inaccurately reported them as having been mistreated. However sympathetic the story, they said, the magazine had "perpetrated a hoax on its readers...