Word: heroical
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...summer palace outside Teheran, tough old Reza Shah Pahlavi of Iran listened intently to his radio. In London a BBC announcer was reading a famous Persian ballad, and through the spitting of static the Shah could hear an old story: how in the Middle Ages a heroic blacksmith named Kahveh killed a Persian tyrant. The poem ended, the announcer asked: "Where is Kahveh today...
Kukan--the heroic battle--is a vital presentation of all that the name, China, connotes--its soil and its people; its vast wastes and towering mountains; and its fight for freedom from Japan and the past. This saga of a nation struggling to be born, of a people trying to unite and find greatness is the story of Chiang Kai-Shek and the young Republic of China. It is also the story of war fought from Burma to Tibet and culminating in the bombing of Chunking. It has the guts that no other movie has and shows how terrible this...
...enrichment of the whole being. Greek boys were brought up on Homer, because Homer was a guide to life . . . . Roman boys studied Virgil . . . . for the same reason . . . . We should hate to guess the proportion of our students who are moved as Sir Philip Sidney was moved by the heroic example of Aeneas . . . ." Author Brooks decried the "baby talk" of Gertrude Stein and James Joyce. Said he: "The great themes [of great literature] are those by virtue of which the race has risen-courage, justice, mercy, honor, love . . . . Has not the time come to restore the American classics? . . . . A few American...
...sites are not picked by the Corps itself but by Corps Area boards which have only one Quartermaster Corps member. Picking is almost invariably complicated by pork-barrel politics. Moreover, Congressional dawdling with emergency measures forced the Corps to start its big program much too late, made it take heroic measures for speed. So costs were skyrocketed by high wages, strikes, tremendous bills for overtime...
There, in that summer month 25 years ago, word went around the beaches, the yachts, the tennis courts, the polo fields that twelve handsome, eligible young men -ten of them from Yale-were coming to Peacock Point, to spend their summer in the most hazardous, heroic, romantic way possible: learning to fly in the hope of becoming wartime aviators-if the U.S. should ever by any chance become involved in the worst war that the world had ever known...