Word: heroism
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...Hollywood movie about World War II movie, ordinary guys often discovered their heroism as soldiers behind enemy lines. There they learned teamwork, resourcefulness, toughness under pressure. Now the boys were back home. And if they weren't going into the employ of the underworld, they could use their wartime tools in a corporate environment, by continuing to work for the government, but as homicide detectives, immigration enforcers, treasury agents. Sometimes, double agents...
...late stages of Parkinson’s Disease, Cash’s performance is a patient, sensitive rejection of the steeliness so many have ascribed to him. He is a ghost, a specter in the American imagination of the stoic hero, a musical John Wayne. Yet like Wayne, whose heroism faded when his off-screen WWII draft-dodging became public, Cash’s immortality is a fiction—as he puts it, “a paperback novel, the kind the drugstores sell.” The main weakness of “American...
...worried about the impact of James Nachtwey's photos of grieving, anguished Congolese. There is a heroism about the images, but there is also a romantic artistry that blunts the pain, and they suggest too strongly the presence of attentive and receptive helpers. We Americans know far too little about Africa and pay too little attention. But would we turn so blind an eye to the death, in less than a decade, of 6% of our own population at the hands of warring parties? I hope not. Doug Watson Shawnee, Oklahoma...
...Appomattox Courthouse adds only more incongruity. But on June 28, 1865, the obvious ironies, much like Davis' solace, meant nothing to the men gathered off this Arctic shore. For the whalemen and the owners of the destroyed ships, the consequences were tragic. For Waddell and his crew, oddly enough, heroism of a sort would soon be called...
...Sudan, perhaps we can spare a few minutes to consider the plight of those innocent souls pictured so well by Time's reporting. Richard B. Lawson Mountlake Terrace, Washington, U.S. I am worried about the impact of James Nachtwey's photos of grieving, anguished Congolese. There is a heroism about the images, but there is also a romantic artistry that blunts the pain, and they suggest too strongly the presence of attentive and receptive helpers. We Americans know far too little about Africa and pay too little attention. But would we turn so blind an eye to the death...