Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strong police protection, however, is ineffective without a calm atmosphere, and in this respect the NAACP has not been exactly lily-white. For days before Miss Lucy's enrollment, sensational statements played her up as an heroic trail-blazer for The Cause of Integration. Undoubtedly, Miss Lucy is blazing a trail across the Cotton Belt; but unless the NAACP sought also to make her a martyr, it is hard to understand why that organization's publicity should lead so directly to the very tension that should be avoided. An occasional "no comment" might, in the long run, be more effective...
...clock: --Comp. Lit. 101b brings associate Professor Lord to bear on Heroic Poetry in Sever 10. At the same hour, V.O. Key will make his usual low-Keyed pronouncements upon American Political Parties during the course of Gov. 135 in Littauer Auditorium...
...little too delicate for the crude lines he is given, but the main trouble is that in the Army sergeants simply do not assault colonels, not even verbally. The sergeant's function to provide friction--thus making the colonel's refusal to abandon the case seem more heroic--would be better fulfilled by a quiet, grumbling misunderstanding than by his present direct attack on the colonel. Allyn McLerie's performance as the colonel's (female) secretary is generally competent, but somehow their relationship does not seem convincing because both of them are too restrained. Her part is interesting, however...
...There has been too little said," says Dr. Hodges in the California-Western Academy Monthly, "of a legitimate right, a God-given right, of the dying man. That is his right to die ... The hopelessly ill patient need not, through a distorted sense of professional duty, be subjected to heroic and extraordinary measures, whose only purpose can be prolongation of an existence that has become intolerable. But it must be the patient himself who declines the measures...
...heroic theme gets severely heroic treatment. Director Otto Preminger has dulled the sociological backdrop that Author Algren daubed so brilliantly, has edged his major characters more starkly against the mass. As a result, the picture is no intellectual slumming party but a hard-eyed study of human character, and the actors serve this end with a well-directed will. Arnold Stang, as Sparrow the dog stealer, looks as woebegone and unhealthy as a tenement torn just starting his ninth life on the garbage-can circuit, but he seldom hides the human quality of his part behind his television false face...