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Most of the heroes of literature would have been far less heroic. Romeo would have said to Juliet, "You're a neat girl, but I don't think our families are ever going to let us get married. Maybe we should split up." Captain Ahab would have given up whaling and retired to grow petunias in a suburb of New Bedford...
Harvard professor of Sociology Ezra Vogel expressed similar doubts at a fundraiser of the ACHR last night. Vogel called Kim "heroic" and his suffering "horrendous," but added that he "was not sure that [Kim's return] was a good thing for either Kim or South Korea...
RIGHT AFTER dedicated doctors but before crusading coroners, journalists have recently come to occupy the spot of "most heroic profession." Walter Cronkhite, Wood ward & Bernstein, Lou Grant; in the public eye there is often a suspicion that underneath those Lois Lane outfits and Clark Kent glasses lurks the big red S, out to correct the injustices of the world with the blinding light of truth...
...enemies with a vast array of weapons systems. Children can buy a He-Man doll astride a "heroic armored war horse" with two laser guns, or the skull-faced figure of Skeletor, the spirit of evil, driving a circular "assault vehicle" equipped with rotating blades to slash the enemy. Should more conventional arms be needed, a handy Weapons Pak is available containing two miniature plastic pistols, a sword, an ax and a whip...
Entrants in this dense and unprecedented volume range from the heroic to the villainous, from Albert Camus to Lee Harvey Oswald. Mallon welcomes them all to his vast storehouse. Some neighbors provide deep ironic contrasts: Anne Frank tells her diary, "I twist my heart . . . so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would like so to be." Four pages later a Nazi architect bitterly considers himself in the third person: "Hitler . . . would have been keenly delighted by the role Albert Speer...