Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traditional Weila Waile, which the Clancys turn into a laff riot, comes off in The Dubliners' brawny hands as the grisly epic of infanticide that it actually is. The often sentimentalized Rising of the Moon becomes in the Dubliners' ver sion a powerful, harrowing hymn of revolutionary heroism...
...Citing the examples of such diverse figures as Christ, Socrates and Unitarian Minister James Reeb, who was bludgeoned to death at Selma in 1965, Pike argues that man can transcend his "occupation of a limited space-time continuum" by his impact on others. In other words, the existence of heroism and sanctity is evidence that there is a transcendent quality to man's being that points beyond this life...
...Michel baptized, and after the war refuses to give him up to his aunt and uncle in Palestine. Her battle is joined by the French Catholic Church up to the level of cardinal. In fighting assorted Zionists, the Catholics revert to their underground railway, but what was heroism in wartime is now kidnaping...
...full saga of Army Staff Sergeant Jimmy G. Stewart's heroism near An Khe in May last year lies buried with him. But eight Viet Cong corpses sprawled around his body bore testimony to the ferocity of the 23-year-old air cavalryman's last fight to shield five wounded comrades. As the only member of his six-man squad left unhurt by the Viet Cong's first surprise onslaught, Stewart alone battled a platoon for four hours, beating back three savage assaults. When his M-16 rifle was empty, Stewart crawled through a barrage of bullets...
...Eroica. Lazar led with authority, observed all the repeats, and superimposed no un-indicated retards. The tone had body, and the rhythm had vitality. Carl Schlaikjer's oboe-playing and Daniel Farber's kettledrumming were particularly expert; and all the hornists negotiated their treacherous parts with real heroism. There were some bad moments, such as the ragged fiddling at the start of the first movement's coda and the end of the funeral march; and a woodwind passage in the trio of the scherzo was muffed the first time, but went admirably the second. The finale, which...