Thomas was going to share with them his reflections on "the question of courage in American political life".
Emily, the gutsy Brummie heroine from Marjorie Darke's suffragette novel A Question Of Courage also appears in it.
Quirky Dragon, via email A Question Of Courage by Marjorie Darke Palmery Panmer, an ordinary working-class girl from Birmingham meets Louise Marshall, a middle class girl and Suffragette; both their lives are turned upside down by their experiences.
The old war-story narrative may have run aground in the Gulf War, but since questions of courage and character are left up in the air, you wonder why the material wasn't played differently — with a greater sense of irony, say, or as absurdist comedy, in something like the style of David O. Russell's Gulf War movie, "Three Kings".
Lately I've been fascinated by the question of moral courage: what it is, who possesses it.
The Australia of Johnston – whose work probed, often to his personal detriment, questions of masculine courage and responsibility – was indelibly marked by the war in a way that could never rationally be construed as positive.
Arsene Wenger has grown accustomed to the fundamental questions of ambition, courage and basic goalscoring competence being asked of his Arsenal team at some point in recent seasons, but rarely has he experienced it as early as three games into a campaign that promises so much.
Telling a story that questions easy definitions of courage and cowardice, Hayhurst achieves the unusual combination of sharp intelligence and jolting emotion.
Her success, thinks Barrymore, is partly a question of having the courage to ask for things.
The unruly French do not make the task easy, but winning them over is a question of political leadership the courage to level with voters and tell them why things need to change.The parallel with Britain is plainly inexact.
Of his routed enemy, Lieut-Gen Bill Slim, the British commanding officer, said: "There can be no question of the supreme courage and hardihood of the Japanese soldiers...I know of no army that could have equalled them".Retaking the road, we proceed to a modern massacre, at Churachandpur, 80km southwest of Imphal.
