Word: gallant
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...Rich phoned to say that he had to sit up with his sick wife. But neither Lasky nor anyone else had ever heard of Rich-except Frank King, producer of the award-winning story of a boy whose pet bull is spared in the bull ring because of its gallant fight. King says he knows Rich all right, met him in Europe in 1952 and bought a "five-or six-page treatment" of the story. Where is Rich now? "In Europe," retorts King. "I'm looking for him now. He's around 34, and he wears a goatee...
...resents the almost blatant elements of explicit and implied propaganda that Messrs. Franklin and White have sandwiched into the scenario--the glories of Mexico; its glorious revolutionary history, superior view of life, the strong, brave, noble Mexican people, their gallant revolutionary leaders. All this is mixed with a subtle anti-Americanism. But these factors do not intrude on the skill and beauty with which the film is handled. Indeed the propaganda's very painlessness makes it insidious, giving strength to the allegation of Communist influence amidst the script writers...
Erwin Rommel was a gallant military figure in a war where material was replacing personality and global strategy was submerging tactics. He became a living legend among the enemy troops and an almost admiring British and American public. The Desert Fox illuminates this remarkable personality without detracting from the romantic aura surrounding...
...those lovable Victorian cranks-a promoter of religions and patent medicines, and a man who fostered domestic harmony by encouraging intellectual debate. In the raucous, blasphemous, antitraditional political life of New Zealand and Australia, Low found his style, starting at eleven as a cartoonist for dim but gallant little periodicals, then graduating to the rambunctious Sydney Bulletin...
...private euthanasia, her husband's "right to die as he wished to, when he chose." She knows that this claim is based on pride: several times during the last painful months, the Wertenbakers gaily toasted what they called their hubris, a word which they thought defined their own gallant pagan defiance of fate. Each reader will have to judge the moral issue for himself; the real significance lies in the fact that, in this book, the issue is only seen in terms of responsibility to oneself and to other human beings, never in terms of responsibility to God. Readers...