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American hero worship is not necessarily nationalistic. Most Americans acknowledge Churchill as one of their greatest heroes, not only because he forged blood, toil, tears and sweat into victory, but because he seemed to embody, like a noble caricature, all the legendary qualities of the English. Not that pugnacity is essential. Americans see Pope John XXIII as a hero because he exuded love and managed to combine the saintly with the jolly. Many Americans would also accord the status of saint-hero to Albert Schweitzer, because they cherish the sentimental picture of the man who gave up the world...
...Sweat. This inconsistent recital is further weakened by its setting; it is a very careless and graceless book. Its narrative course defies sensible plotting: after opening, for example, with Roosevelt's death, it leaps ahead to Hiroshima, then back to Truman's first faltering steps as President. It is inaccurate and contradictory; having stated that "no President ever entered the White House with a better understanding of Government finance," Phillips later acknowledges Truman's "deficiency" in the same subject. His writing style, furthermore, might grieve even the New York Times's copy desk: "There...
...Conference and some other civil rights groups are urging Negroes to vote-either for Negro candidates who are seeking Democratic nominations or for the most moderate white nominees available. "To give the Negro the vote," says Amelia Boynton, chairman of the Dallas County Voters League, "has cost worry, blood, sweat, jobs and lives. It is a privilege he should have had all the time. It is one he should use regardless." In Dallas County many Negroes are bent on ousting racist Sheriff Jim Clark and support his rival, Selma's relatively moderate Public Safety Director Wilson Baker. - The Student...
Although their diction ranges from the heavily eloquent ("What is the Badge of Courage? /It's sweat and blood and tears," and "Our toll is written in history's scroll / In bright, bright lines of red.") to the quasilyrical ("Lay the green sod oe'r me"), Sadler's words are united by the common theme of self-congratulation. Sometimes they approach the sickness of Teen Angel as in Trooper's Lament where, "As he fell through the night, / His 'chute all in flames, / A smile on his lips, / He cried out his girl's name," but generally these songs...
...step most probably have yet a little of the militant feminist in them, which grows red-eyed at the very thought of a masculine prerogative. The number of libraries in or near the Yard is somewhat impressive and can certainly accommodate all stranded 'Cliffies without the help of Sweat Sock Elysium. Therefore, again, I am sympathetic...