Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Child in a Hurry. John Joseph Gunther was born Aug. 3, 1901, in North Side Chicago. From his father, Eugene Mc-Clellan Gunther, a convivial drifter, he inherited big-boned bulk and heroic alcoholic capacity. From their schoolteacher-mother, Lisette Schoeninger Gunther, John and sister Jean took on lifelong respect for book learning. As a sickly eleven-year-old, John showed precocious talent as a rewriteman by compiling a children's encyclopedia from John Clark Ridpath's Cyclopedia of Universal History. Contents: "All the Necessary Statistics of the World," "World Battleships," "Greek and Roman Mythology with Genealogic Tables...
...melancholy a Ukrainian girl feels when her lover leaves for the front, ends with a bravura blaze of tremendous Gopak leaps as the lover returns triumphant to the village. In contrast with scenes more or less mirroring Soviet life, there are evocations of the past such as Khorumi, a heroic dance on themes of war and the hunt, performed in Georgia in the 12th century...
...final, climactic confrontation of J.B. with God, MacLeish sticks close to Scripture, and the Bible provides the best poetry in the play. But in the scene that follows, MacLeish shifts the emphasis from God's glory to man's heroic acceptance. Says Mr. Zuss...
...Neill set out to write a Yankee Oedipus Rex, but what came out might more appropriately have been titled Sex Rex. The antagonists of the drama are a father (Burl Ives) and a son (Anthony Perkins), and the subject of their struggle, as in the myths of heroic succession on which the drama is modeled, is the land (a New England farm) and the woman (Sophia Loren). The son aspires to his inheritance, but the father, a massive brute of 76 who vows he will live to be 100, is too strong for him. Then the father marries a young...
...Indonesians love peace as well. In the soft scented night each village resounds with the rhythmic, curiously tuneful gamelan music of bowl-shaped gongs, bamboo flutes, metal keys, two-stringed violins. Fluid-fingered dancers will hold an audience enchanted all the night long; wayang puppet shows, telling the heroic legends of the past, run from sunset to dawn. Yet together with the industriousness and mannered behavior of the Indonesian is the wild agony of the amok, when a man for no clear reason will throw off all restraint and race through his village wielding his razor-sharp parang against everything...