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...morning of Nov. 30, 22 years ago, a Soviet land-sea-air offensive against Finland ended prolonged negotiations over Soviet demands for Finnish territory. Numerically overpowering Russian troops expected to overrun Finland in days, but heroic resistance by skillful, ski-equipped troops fought the enemy to a virtual standstill until the final collapse of the Finns 16 weeks later...
...previous five, he smothers this talent by his pack-rat compulsion to drag in everything pertaining to Madison and his times, no matter how deadening it may be. Even so, the main weakness of his final book is Madison himself, who was far too small a man for the heroic role that Brant would have him play. At times, in fact, even Author Irving Brant seems to forget about little Jemmy, as page after page goes by without a mention of James Madison...
...paste brown tape over or tear out such religious passages as the Sermon on the Mount. But outside of that, it would take no guff about McGuffey. Said Beula: "McGuffey teaches the basic morals of Americanism-honor your parents, honesty, love animals." Said Pfeiffer: "McGuffey builds recognition of the heroic, the elevated, the patriotic strength on which our country is based. If we had McGuffey's in our schools we never would have had the defections we had in Korea...
...enjoyed your short dissertation, "Aristotle and the Bomb" [Oct. 13], in which Sidney Hook so convincingly stated the principal issue involved in the question: Red, Dead or Heroic? For if we but strived toward mere simple existence as our only end in life, would we not merely be acting as an irrational animal and contrary to our very nature as that of a rational human being...
...point of General della Rovere is that being a man demands a sometimes heroic participation in human suffering, and that cowardice entails renouncing humanity and isolating oneself from it. It is a lofty theme, but unfortunately General della Rovere does it only sporadic justice...