Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attitude of the CRIMSON, and of Prof. Holcombe, that in listening to such men Harvard is waging an heroic defense of civil liberties is perhaps one of the most frightening indications of the spread of fear in America to appear on the local scene. Hugh C. MacDougall...
Theodore Roosevelt became a myth ahead of his time. This was partly due to a heroic combination of energy and diverse talents. The U.S. has had few public officials who could get equal enjoyment from shooting a charging rhino or writing an essay on Dante, from outwitting Manhattan's Tammany politicians or swapping opinions on Roman history with British scholar friends. It was also true that later generations, notably those raised under the administration of Teddy's cousin, Franklin Delano, could see Teddy, politically speaking, only in the perspective of successors like Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge...
Editorially, Jubilee has a calmness that other religious publications might envy, but the editors' religious premises are nonetheless uncompromising. Said Editor Rice: "[The people] we cover are the heroic, the altruistic, the honest, the holy -instead of the glorified confidence man and the lovable fraud who get so much space these days...
...Wagnerian opera has gone into one of its periodic U.S. declines. From eight productions (including the four-evening Ring cycle) in 1940-41, the Met's offerings of Wagner now run to only about three productions a season. Meanwhile, Wagner fans keep their ears peeled for heroic-voiced artists to build up the schedule again...
...Cape Cod Novelist Taylor finds just the setting and the people to suit him. Its crusty old characters are dying out, but the ones Taylor describes are more likely to cackle than to whimper when their time comes. True, their role is no longer heroic, and they are more apt to die in bed than at sea. But old codgers like Uncle Veenie and Captain Ezra Cobb are firmly in the Yankee tradition, and they are as slick at fleecing the summer folks as ever their forebears were at trimming the sails...