Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tonight's offering, is a true masterpiece. If bourgeois sentimentality is your bag, and it is ours, then this is the film of a lifetime for you. A virginal 18 year old recruit in the Red Army, which is reeling from the German assault of 1941, is decorated for heroism at the front and granted a short leave home to visit his mother. This journey home, through the interior of war-torn Russia is complete with a love affair and an emotional reunion with mother and comrades at what appears to be a collective farm. The beauty of the scenery...
...Heroism? Economic self-interest? Better look closer to home for the basic cause of the American Revolution-America's moms in fact. At least so argues Lloyd deMause, Director of New York's Institute for Psychohistory. Addressing the American Association for the Advancement of Science, deMause maintained that children in 18th century Europe grew up in cruel environments that induced them to accept punishment and avoid rebellious behavior. But American children of the same period, said deMause, had strong and loving mothers, and were later unhappy when they were denied love by their mothers or symbolic substitutes. When...
...away," complains Nicholas Horrock, who covers national intelligence agencies for the New York Times. Horrock reports that one intelligence source has already called him to say that "he was getting uncomfortable" because of the Ford proposals. Adds Washington Star Reporter Norman Kempster: "It will take an act of extreme heroism for a bureaucrat to blow the whistle on wrongdoing...
...narrative poems. Degas's subject does indeed convey the emphatic sensuality that figures in Sagan's conception of women. Sagan's women are wrapped up in their own sexuality, even tormented by it. One craves bloody flesh; another, the Russian named Ytrasie, whose romanticism pushes her into rather appealing heroism, has black braids which "flew out like whips." Yet they are frightened of their own desires, and tend to suppress them. As a result, they remain unfulfilled or their bodies are reshaped by their lovers' ravishment, while "the soul splits apart, and tastes like salt." The women of her verse...
...about a New Year's party for Yiddish writers, and in this seemingly autobiographical sketch, the narrator/author says he has always hated such parties because "Leftists scolded me for failing to promote world revolutions. The Zionists reproached me for not dramatizing the struggle of the Jewish state and the heroism of its pioneers." And his hostess adds to this list of grievances when she says she must defend the narrator against attacks of being snob, cynic, misanthrope and recluse...