Word: gallant
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...imagination than any other army in modern times, it is because imagination was always its main weapon. Never has a minuscule army enlisted so many gifted poets, playwrights and novelists,* nor a colonial quarrel produced so rich a body of literature. By contrast with its gay and gallant image, in its later days the I.R.A. engaged in violence almost as ruthless and aimless as the Secret Army Organization's in Algeria, notably at the start of World War II, when its booby traps maimed and killed innocent civilians in England. But the S.A.O. men practice violence...
...walls attest to Walter's role in HUAC and his immense power. Pictures of Roosevelt, Truman, and Kennedy hang behind his desk. A wall-full of framed cartoons--many of them critical--comment on the HUAC. They picture Walter as nearly everything from Smearer of Innocents to gallant knight...
...first is General Seeger, a new play by Ira (No Time lor Sergeants) Levin, which opened last week at Detroit's Shubert Theater to cheers from noisily partisan audiences. Directed by Scott, it stars William Bendix as a U.S. Army major general who discovers that the supposedly gallant death of his soldier son was actually a suicide faked as heroism by Army flacks. General Seeger will undergo the ordeal by fire when it moves to Broadway next week...
...article in Tuesday's CRIMSON reviewed Huxley's theories on mescaline and related them to psilocybin studies being executed by some staff members at the Center for Research in Personality. The CRIMSON essay was a gallant attempt to summarize a most difficult subject matter, but some clarification seems needed...
Land of Illusion in the old ambiguous world, where priests were spies and gallant friends proved traitors and his country was led blundering into dishonor...