Word: heroical
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...heroic Christianity is what Bernanos demands, and he thinks the elements for it are ready. Just as in 1000 A.D., when out of the waste and decline of two empires, the Roman and Carlovingian, the magnificence of Chivalry arose, a new kind of men may appear in his beloved France and throughout Europe. Bernanos puts his faith in the insurgence of these men. Profit and money have already become ridiculous to them; as for Freedom, "We are seeing liberty gradually disassociated from juridical definitions and becoming human again." In one of the exalted passages of his book he speaks...
...North Americans, to whom his seignorial temper may at first seem foreign, can recognize in his concept of "honor" a virtue familiar to them1 in their own great men and called by them "responsibility." (He reminds Americans, too, that while their arsenal of Democracy helped to save England, the heroic example of England saved American democracy from committing its own stupendous Munich...
...fierce, unequal battle for the air is accompanied in this novel by the battle for the land. War Correspondent Aldridge reports this fighting from personal experience (he was correspondent for North American Newspaper Alliance). Heroic place names of the Greek campaign appear again with the old ring-Argyrokastron, Janina, Larissa, the Pindus, Arta. Greek soldiers, ill-equipped, ill-led, climb slowly down the mountainsides in reluctant retreat. They shoot their pro-Nazi officers who talk of surrender, filter silently into hiding in the forests when their units are shattered. Their tragicomic air ace, Nitralexis, goes out on reconnaissance...
...story of Norway since the conquest shows that while a free democracy may be slow to realize its danger, it can be heroic when aroused. At home, the Norwegian people have silently resisted the invaders' will with grim determination. Abroad, Norwegian ships and Norwegian men have rallied to the cause of the United Nations...
...warning that the United Nations could read in the Red Army's heroic retreat was that soon they might have to face the Axis without effective Russian aid. If Marshal von Bock could push the Russians across the Volga and then successfully stabilize his lines, Hitler could withdraw armies and air fleets for use in other theaters...