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...America's abundance," she has written, "was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests." Of Greenspan's new job, Rand, 69, said last week: "I think it's an heroic undertaking...
...what's going on in the Mediterranean now is anything but farfetched. Spain marked the end of a peculiar epoch in modern history, a time when intellectuals dared to commit themselves to political causes, to believe passionately in them and to fight for them. It was an heroic era, and Rossif's film is in part a memorial to that heroism. Showings begin at 7 and 9:30, admission...
...Thomas Carlyle who articulated the beginning of the modern romantic cycle. "The history of the world," he wrote in 1841, "is but the biography of great men." Hitler elaborated the argument with Hegel's theory of the "world-historical figure" ? the heroic genius who emerges when the historical moment is right to lead a people to their preordained destiny...
That thought merged a kind of messianism with Hegelian and Marxian determinism, the idea that vast and blind historical forces sweep across the world's stage without important regard to personalities. But of course that Marxist thought is invalidated by Marxist his tory ? the crucial "heroic" role played by men like Marx himself, and Lenin and Stalin. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. suggests that "men have lived who did what no substitute could ever have done; their intervention set history on one path rather than another. If this is so, the old maxim There are no indispensable men' would seem another...
...English aristocracy was capable of disastrous follies. There is no more perfect indictment of such leadership than the fatuously self-confident direction by the Lords Raglan and Cardigan of the charge of the Light Brigade. The event must be seen in retrospect not just as a piece of heroic military stupidity (worse ones have occurred since), but as a symbol of what happens to a trained elite that is closed to new blood and new ideas...