Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last gives a movie performance that captures the brittle tenderness of his work on TV's M*;A*;S*H. As Tynan, a likable liberal Senator from New York, Alda usually ends up on the side of right, yet he manages to take the sanctimoniousness out of heroism. His Senator is self-critical, unpretentious and witty. He also looks great in a three-piece suit. Were this fellow actually to enter a primary, New York's incumbent Democrat, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, would be in serious trouble...
...Vieit Nam vets, including Muller, Carter said that "the nation is ready to change its heart, its mind and its attitude about the men who had fought in the war.'' After admitting that not enough has been done "to respect, honor, recognize and reward [your] special heroism," the President said: "We love you for what you were and what you stood for-and we love you for what you are and what you stand...
...Hushabye, Shotover's deceitful and conniving daughter whose romantic delusion compels her to dress her suave husband, Hector, (Kevin Fitzpatrick) in an Arabian robe and to keep him around as a housepet. But Hector surprises the audience with his strength of character. In the final act, he displays both heroism and an astute self-consciousness of the indolence and uselessness plaguing his society. Fitzpatrick's smooth acting makes this transition quite believable...
...novel of Texas society" than something else, there is, of course, more to Texas than Texas society, or "po' boys at play in the fields (and beds) of the energy lords." And there is more to Texas than "seamy politicians," "oil and gas," "Dallas Cowboys," of "Thermopylae-like heroism." The problem is that little else flows out of Texas to the rest of the country through TV, novels, magazines, or newspapers like the Crimson...
...book about my generation. This is an exceptional generation in our history. It can be compared almost to the biblical generation. I must not make any comparisons; it's forbidden. But whatever they in biblical times and we in our times achieved, was achieved through suffering and heroism. Therefore I contend that we are a quasi-biblical generation, and I want to write a book about...