Word: heroisms
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...pugnacious faith in the old virtues came naturally to McCaffrey. He was born of Irish immigrant stock and reared in the melting-pot atmosphere of The Bronx. Later he was awarded the Silver Star and Croix de guerre for his heroism in the trenches of France as a U.S. Army chaplain during World War I. Even before he came to Holy Cross in 1932, succeeding the late Father Francis P. Duffy (who won fame with the "Fighting 69th" Regiment back when that was an honorable number), McCaffrey honed his appreciation of law enforcement as chaplain to New York...
Novelist and Journalist John Hersey has dealt with lofty subjects: death by holocaust (Hiroshima), extremes of heroism (The Wall), a man against the sea (Under the Eye of the Storm). So, at first glance, a sordid shooting in a seedy motel during last summer's Detroit riots hardly seems potential material for him. Yet out of these unpromising ingredients, Hersey has fashioned a book, The Algiers Motel Incident (Knopf; $5.95) that measures up to his better work. "This episode," he writes, "contained all the mythic themes of racial strife in the U.S.: the arm of the law taking...
Died. Sir Herbert Read, 74, poet, critic and catholic thinker; of cancer; in Stonegrave, England. An outspoken pacifist prior to World War I, Read nonetheless joined the Royal Army in 1915, won the Distinguished Service Order and Military Cross for heroism in the trenches. He preferred the romantic poets when everyone from Hemingway to T. S. Eliot was joining the Lost Generation, and explained abstract art when its meaning eluded many...
...voice but with common candor, sometimes naively and too glibly, often with a deep faith in the perfectibility of man. In their self-conscious seriousness, they seem to be trying to live up to French-Poet Paul Claudel's contention that "youth is not made for pleasure but for heroism." Some of the demanding and perceptive students who best express the special things that their class wants...
Perhaps Wood's greatest game came against Army in that 1931 season. Trailing by two touchdowns, he rallied Harvard to a 13-13 tie, and then performed a predictable feat of heroism. The pass from center for the extra point was low so he scooped up the ball and danced untouched into the endzone for the winning point. Then, as the clock ticked away the final seconds, Army's fleet half-back Paul Johnson broke loose toward the Harvard goal. "He had at least a ten-yard start on Barry, with no one between him and the goal line...