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...This harvest," he finished, "is dedicated to the heroic Vietnamese people. We want you to know that we are willing to offer our own blood for Vietnam if it is necessary." International solidarity to the Cubans means a hell of a lot more than carrying an NLF flag...
...scoreboard with a point-blank shot in front, and throughout the second period, the Eagles kept up the pace. Time after time B. C. stormed into the Harvard zone. and time after time the Eagles were foiled by heads-up defensive play and Durno's heroic performance...
...series should be not just a Cook's tour of the greatest art museums, monuments, cities and plazas of Europe and America, but a visual account of Western man's entire pageant, from the first tentative re-emergence of art and philosophy under Charlemagne to the "heroic materialism" of today...
Unhealed Wound. Chambers was haunted by memories of violence and sacrifice: the Soviet purges, the Nazi final solution for the Jews, countless heroic individual attempts to destroy Communist officials who perpetrated acts of special beastliness. His ultimate ethical condemnation of the Communist state, and of this century, stemmed from the cruelties now worked upon the people. "A man," he wrote, "can be simply or savagely-above all, pointlessly-wiped out, regardless of what he is, means, hopes, dreams or might become. This reality cuts across our minds like a wound whose edges crave to heal, but cannot." "Perhaps the great...
...close. To see the whole he must stand back. By their sheer size the paintings scream for recognition, protesting the decreasing space in an overpopulated world. At first the enormity of the entire 34-room exhibition dwarfs the viewer. Yet the dynamism of art makes him empathize with the heroic stature or the visions before...