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Computer pioneers at the Digital Equipment Corporation in Marlboro, Mass, started the museum in 1971 because, museum officials explain, these nostalgic executives felt a responsibility to preserve the remnants of the heroic days of computers. First nothing more than a jumbled collection of old computer machinery in the company headquarters, the collection became, in 1979, the Digital Computer Museum, whose first visitors came to see this smaller exhibit of the early stumbling of the Information...
Seifert's determination to pursue his writing is heroic considering the chilling events he has lived through. Unfortunately, his poetry is scarcely better than what you find on greeting cards...
...Maya Ying Lin's Viet Nam Memorial was unveiled in 1982, few denied the power of the low, somber black granite wall, now engraved with the names of 58,007 Americans dead or missing in the war. Nonetheless, many veterans felt that the wall was not uplifting, not heroic enough. So officials of the memorial fund risked the wrath of those who liked the wall as it was and asked Frederick Hart, 40, a Washington sculptor who had finished third in the initial competition, to design an added element. Last week his statue of seven-foot-tall bronze figures...
...here that conventional narrative breaks down, the conventional desire for a grand heroic gesture defeated. The film's ostensible protagonist is shuffled off to a few guilty scenes so that Pran's patient, stubborn will to survive his awful ordeal may be celebrated. Ngor, a Cambodian doctor now living in California, brings both a natural gift and memories of his own torments by the Khmer Rouge to this role...
...Over the past 15 years, he has given an absolutely heroic devotion to this If something important surfaced at 3 a.m. he'd be up and telephoning the west coast in minutes." Gingerich says...