Word: heroic
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...clear what the actual event is, but in 1919 President Lowell sent Harvard students into Boston to scab during the police strike. Two students were killed while they did their class duty and undermined the workers. Maybe the molasses flood was more entertaining; it certainly must have been more heroic. The show is being presented by the People's Theater of Cambridge at 1253 Cambridge St. in Inman Square. Saturday's performance is at 8:30, two shows on Sunday at 5:30 and 8, one show Monday at 8. Tickets cost a buck and a half...
...heat of a grave political crisis, a modest man became momentarily a heroic one. Now, eight months later, Cox has returned to his book-lined office in the International Legal Studies Building at the Law School, saying little about the scandal even in his now-frequent speeches and waiting modestly for the other shoe, the one his defiance set in motion, to drop on Richard Nixon...
Considering the residual hatred that had built up between Syria and Israel over the years, Sadat's commentary on Kissinger's heroic labor was not too wide of the mark. Among the eight key points that Kissinger has managed to work out in a typically imaginative, subtle and complicated agreement...
...which he himself was St. Sebastian. Poshlust again. What rescued Mishima from merely exotic decadence was his creative vigor and intelligence. He found a larger context for his obsessions in the Japanese martial tradition, which formalized his bloody impulses and created in him a kind of reverence for heroic self-slaughter, the ultimate self-abuse. He lived the anachronistic code of bunburyodo, the samurai tradition of art and action. Or he lived it some of the time. He played other roles as well, among them that of a conventional husband (he was married for twelve years and had two children...
...search of the woman worthy of his heroic self-sacrifice, Tarnopol throws aside such winners, such female Tarnopols, as Dina Dornbusch (Sarah Lawrence, "rich, pretty, smart, sexy, adoring") on the way to his perfect losing cause. Maureen Johnson is a twice-divorced ex-barmaid out of Elmira, N.Y., afflicted by artiness, more than a touch of paranoia and a very odd walk. Roth often seems as baffled as the reader as to why Tarnopol should marry this "cornball Clytemnestra" for whom he feels no affection or even lust. Does Maureen represent the muse of disorder, the Dionysian element every artist...