Word: heroical
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William James's two fundamental beliefs pertaining to liberalism were the doctrines of heroic activism and the satisfaction of demand, according to Ralph Barton Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, speaking this week at the fifth of a series of seven discussions entitled "Liberalism in A World At War." Perry explained to the audience that his views were parallel to those of the famous American psychologist and philosopher, and therefore, the statements he made during the meeting could be taken as the expressed beliefs of William James...
...movie is a portrayal of the heroic work done by the nurses in Bataan and other strategic points. It is a tough, cruel picture (especially when you have to see Veronica Lake get her hair parted by her own hand-grenade) but it drives the truth home...
Assiduously pumped by a Russian-born pianist and writer, Victor Ilyich Seroff, Aunt Nadejda tells all. The result, Shostakovich's first full-length biography (Dmitri Shostakovich by Victor Ilyich Seroff; Knopf; $3), shows its subject to be not only a bespectacled firewarden and heroic musical panegyrist of embattled Russia, but an engaging human being who might have stepped out of the pages of a Chekhov family drama...
...guard a secret formula; it is mysteriously stolen and he is bounced out on his ear. By way of Tokyo he eventually gets to Midway and wins the Congressional Medal of Honor for helping to destroy a Japanese aircraft carrier. Death finally comes to Brad in a spectacularly heroic manner-none too soon either...
Small reward for this heroic nation then, to deprive her not only of the promised Dodecanese (taken by Italy from the old Turkish Empire in 1912; given to Greece in 1919, and retaken by Italy in 1922 for no reason and vaguely promised ever since), but also Greek-inhabited Western Thrace which has been incorporated with Greece since 1919! And these territories are to be taken from a nation that is indisputably on our side and given to the canny Turks, still waiting to make sure who is going...