Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is an important first step," said Dr. Robert Gallo, a leading AIDS researcher at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. "It's very noble that he did it on himself first." Yet Zagury dismissed any notion of heroism and seemed embarrassed by the attention. "If I began on myself," he told a reporter from France's Le Matin, "it is simply a question of a scientist's ethics...
Survivors told tales of heroism and almost miraculous rescues. William Cardwell was trapped on an upper deck when he saw a man carrying a baby to safety. "I saw one man climbing up seats with a small baby in his teeth," he recounted. "It was unbelievable." Cardwell had been trying to break through a window to escape when the man with the baby came up along with two other children. "It was pitch dark and freezing cold," he said. "We took turns rubbing the baby to keep it warm." Finally a helicopter dropped them a line, pulled...
...THERE it is. Not knowing that we need heroes, we debunk them. Pale and sickly scholars, incapable of heroism, reveal the "truth" about the men we would do well to revere...
...next time you're accosted by a sociology professor peddling the joys of debunking heroism, don't give in. Just...
...West encroaches on the wilderness, any heroes are welcome. To his fans, Claude Lafayette Dallas Jr., a hardened 36-year-old, embodies bull- headed heroism. As a boy, Dallas read Zane Grey, trapped animals on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and harbored a dream to head West. In 1968 he did, and started as a buckaroo on a ranch in Oregon. Acquaintances called him gentle, quiet, a loner. Dallas earned a reputation as a hard worker and a fellow who'd stare you straight in the eye. "Buckarooing," he once explained in charming simplicity, "is just a man doing...