Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lust for Life. A film biography of Vincent Van Gogh (Kirk Douglas), including a cinemuseum tour crammed with four-color, heroic-scale reproductions of Van Gogh's paintings (TIME, Sept...
Harsh as it was by U.N. standards, the censure resolution failed to dissipate the sense of guilt which many delegates felt toward Hungary's heroic rebels. "We are reproached," said Ireland's Frederick Boland early in the debate, "by the saying of Pericles: 'Acts deserve acts, not words, in their honor.' We do not hope to move the Russians by our appeals and our condemnations; they may be moved, however, by their own increasing isolation...
With stops in Russia during the 'heroic days' of the second Five Year Plan and in Spain in 1937, Langston Hughes' journey from 1930 to 1937 paralleled those of many writers and journalists born around 1900. But Hughes' story is not much like those of such men as Stephen Spender, Louis Aragon, Louis Fischer, George/Orwell, and Arthur Koestler...
Wrote Editor-in-Chief Henry R. Luce in the foreword: "This book is a tribute to the Hungarian dead, to whom we owe our pity, our pride and our praise. But this book is also a salute to the ways men find-ways routine and ways heroic-to tell each other the story of great deeds and their meaning. So it is always with the story of freedom...
...movie does this, and ends with the hope that these people will do better in the future, as they of course did. Although Grapes of Wrath has much less value as social criticism and protest in 1956, it still is worth seeing for its successful portrayal of an heroic human drama...