Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These incidents are not taken from the script of the next John Wayne movie or from the citations of Medal of Honor winners. They are simply the everyday stuff of battle in Viet Nam, where, according to a new study, unsung and unrecognized physical heroism is routine. In combat, the American serviceman turns out to be just as remarkable as he appears on film...
Dauntless Hangover. Initially, at least, heroism leaves a hangover of dauntlessness. Most of the wounded men insisted-some for as long as two days -that they could return to their units immediately. When a doctor told one man with a missing toe that his leg would not have to be amputated, the soldier smiled. "Great," he said. "I can go right back to my squad." Almost all of the victims were able to toss off nonchalant quips about their plight. In a Danang hospital, an interviewer asked an amputee what had happened to him. "Some bastard stepped on a mine...
...cannot envision that future. For the moment we might breathe and touch the things of our poor, sweaty, nervous present and consider that even a living illusion can be more valuable than a dead reality. The generic challenge to dullness is not an irritation but a moral obligation, not heroism but perhaps a duty of every life of any quality. To claim that the avant-garde as well as the musical art is irrelevant is to suffer from precisely the coldness which they seek to temper. It is the impossible balancing of the remains of inheritance and inheritors which lends...
...Yorker as drama critic. Next stop was Hollywood in 1932, where he and Billy Wilder collaborated on 15 pictures, including Academy Award winners The Lost Weekend (1945) and Sunset Boulevard (1950). Brackett's final Oscar was for his Titanic (1953) screenplay, which captured all the heroism and much of the horror of the world's greatest maritime disaster...
...words, is a simple man. He traded passion for happiness and now he regrets it. The Minister was equally simple, trading happiness of knowledge. Perhaps that's what you'll be doing if you see these plays, but see them anyway. You may have already thrown away your heroism and happiness in hope of knowledge. It would be a shame to leave without the knowledge...