Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Tillotson Wainwright, who went into the U.S. foreign service, died a heroic death in 1930, trying to save two other swimmers in a raging...
...cathedral and the cardinal's palace." Others argued that the sword-brandishing statue was "too warlike a figure to stand in front of a church." And Peru's inarticulate Indians never saw any reason to glorify the man they still consider no better than a heroic butcher. But the church-front spot for the statue also had its defenders, who thought it a "commanding position from which he could seem to keep watch over the city he had laid out and founded 400 years before...
Part of the Bayreuth revolution was the use of top singers who had not come up through the German chain of promotion (from provincial opera houses to major cities to Bayreuth). Chilean Tenor Ramon Vinay, familiar at the Metropolitan Opera but a stranger to Germany, looked handsome and heroic and sang brilliantly as Tristan. German Soprano Martha Moedl, 37, had begun to sing only eight years ago, but was a warm, natural Isolde. The Brangaene was a Ukrainian contralto named Era Malaniuk. Whatever the critics thought of the sets. they seemed to agree that the new Tristan was a fine...
...liberty, then a fraud has been perpetrated . . . What we have here in the Nation is no more than a half-truth, perhaps no more than a tenth part of the truth. From the Nation one gets the impression that individual liberty today must rely for its defense on a heroic and beleaguered little band marshaled by [Nation editors] Freda Kirchwey and Carey McWilliams...
...thing, asking MacArthur to give up pay, earned in heroic service, would raise a storm of protest from his admirers. For another, trying to get him out of uniform against his will would be troublesome. On top of all that, President Truman made it obvious at his press conference last week that he was delighted at the spectacle of the Republican generals squabbling among themselves, in or out of uniform, and would do nothing to head them...