Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play is a kind of twilit allegory, a heroic drama that beats its swords into similes a work whose verbal abundance begets theatrical poverty. Brief scenes excepted, the play is most interesting where philosophically it is least so: in the first act where the situation is forged, where there is some of the clang of cloak-and-sword drama, where the words still fly upward. Thereafter, when they attempt to go inward, they suggest not a scalpel but an embroidery needle. Moreover, Fry is so unsimple with language that he can never really be complex about people. His deserter...
...Fall of France, Spears's sequel to his Prelude to Dunkirk, tells the story of June 1940, and is packed with as many characters as a grand opera. But the single figure of heroic stature and stentorian voice is that of Churchill. It is a measure of the author's success that he manages to add still another dimension to the familiar portrait. Ten years after France emerged theoretically victorious from World War II, 15 years after its fall to the Germans, France is still fallen-floundering in a moral and political morass. The record of 1940 tells...
Dame Myra Hess, 65, gave a standout performance of Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 1 (the one supposedly too heroic for women to attempt) with the Philharmonic-Symphony, conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos (a mere...
...Belgium, where as leader of the heroic "battered bastards of the bastion of Bastogne" he uttered his famed "Nuts!" to a German surrender demand, Lieut. General Anthony C. McAuliffe was a palace guest of King Baudouin and later heard himself eulogized in a ceremony marking the tenth anniversary of the U.S. garrison's besiegement...
...LEATHERSTOCKING SAGA, by James Fenimore Cooper, edited by Allan Nevins (833 pp.; Pantheon; $8.50). In a heroic effort to save one of his favorite authors from the oblivion of an unread classic. Columbia University's versatile Historian Allan Nevins has undertaken to streamline Fenimore Cooper for moderns. A lifelong Cooper fan who played make-believe Deerslayer as an Illinois farmboy, Nevins has taken the five Leatherstocking tales-The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers and The Prairie-shorn away the interminable love passages and faded humor, deftly stitched the rest together to fit into...