Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this kind of hero, almost as rarely as it would cover the suffering of Solzhenitsyn if he happened to be a Vietnamese pamphleteer or a Chilean folksinger instead of an anti-communist Nobel Prize winner. Real heroes rarely get publicity or official recognition; their anonymity is part of their heroism...
...thin veneer of reason covering modern society. The play is still more complex than a simple attack on mindless conformity. It questions what resistance to conformity really means. Because he resists rhinoceritis, Stanley appears to be a hero at the end. But there is an ambiguous quality to his heroism. When he realizes he is the only human left in the town, his resistance to the disease momentarily weakens. He begins to think it might be nice to be a rhinoceros. It seems the thing to do. Stanley begins snorting, in a desperate attempt to turn into a beast...
...Many times since 1945," Wynn says, "I have seen the tension between the Egypt of heroism and great exploits- which existed under Nasser- and the Egypt that struggles for its daily existence. Under Sadat, one gets the impression that the emphasis is on the very practical demands of survival and more bread for the people. This evolution is due in part to the difference in style of the two men, but it results primarily from the obvious needs of Egypt today...
These two films, The Emigrants and The New Land, form an epic story of the quiet heroism and universal response at the core of one of our cherished myths. It is perhaps most telling of all that this fine and noble film about the American past was not attempted, would not have been attempted, by an American. That attempt awaits a more mature time...
...Papadopoulos's sham democracy that Greece needed a change of government was the old government's inability to prevent or even effectively suppress last week's uprising, in which thousands of students and workers fought Greek police and American tanks, demanding a restoration of democracy and freedom. The demonstrators' heroism brought down one dictatorship; because of this week's instability, and the uncertainty about the new government's policy, there's at least some possibility that Greece will become more free. Gizikis may stick to both his new office and his fascist principles, but if he does he will...