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Giants in the earth.(Ryan)
LAST WEEKEND I rearranged "heroes comer", an alcove in my study hung with photographs. Not a great deal of high photographic art: most of the pictures are grainy black-and-white enlargements of ancient snapshots. Not one of the subjects was a hero in some great or classical sense--no Duke of Wellington, no General Gordon, no Horatius who kept the bridge in the brave days of old.
And certainly they are not heroes in that stretched sense that might include Don Bradman or "Up-There" Cazaly. Newspaper usage has debased "hero"; like other four letter words, it fits handily into a headline, and requires no mental effort or discrimination.
But all these men ...
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