Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...storm, and for a while I had entertained hopes of joining their struggle against the elements. But my father, taking seriously the warning that his little beach cottage was about to become part of the 12-mile fishing limit, wasted little time in disabusing me of any pretensions towards heroism. So, popping open a 10 a.m. beer with the local priest and a couple of the town aldermen, I reluctantly boarded the reconverted, Prohibition era rum-runner the local ferry monopoly had provided to shuttle us off to safety for a mere $1.75 apiece. My friends I left to their...
...that, the book succeeds. What it lacks in depth and style, it makes up in sheer power. The seemingly endless flood of names and numbers, the innumerable tales of heroism and cowardice, the continuous demonstrations of the storm's savagery, all add up to a compelling narrative, a hymn to the brute force of nature. The scenes of hundreds swimming through storm waves in downtown Providence, of thousands fighting back flood waters in New London, Conn., of train crews outracing deadly tidal waves and of desperate sailors straining to keep their 1000-ton vessel from from running aground on inland...
...mourn the founderings of classic yachts than the deaths of those who went down with them. A Wind to Shake the World is thus more a showcase for the battle of man against nature than a display of how people react to each other in times of crisis. The heroism, of which there is plenty, seems yanked from a John Wayne movie script; we see lots of heroes, but precious few human beings...
Here in Chile, in the middle of enormous difficulties, a truly just society was being erected, based on our sovereignty, our national pride, and the heroism of the best of Chile's population. On our side, on the side of the Chilean revolution, were the constitution and the law, democracy and hope...
Carter's transition from child to man is already well documented. His basic political world view probably was gathering itself in those years. A somewhat abstract appreciation of humankind, of the heroism of the everyday life, a little from Tolstoy, a little from Dylan Thomas. A growing sense that history could be nudged-even shoved-with some hardheaded planning and trying, as his own history showed. A slowly smoldering burn against a social order in which blacks had to take white meanness as a given. But in those days he did not say much of what he thought...