Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scene, he looked as though he might chew up every backdrop in California; with a rich, bellowing bass to match his histrionics, the effect was heroic. After the death scene, the bravos all but blew the house in. Even the critics sounded their A's. The Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein: "Never before have I heard an audience gasp when an operatic hero fell dead; this is the final measure of the conviction with which Rossi played Boris." Declared Critic Cecil Smith in the News: "The most commanding Boris since Chaliapin...
Saint Joan gains in stature because-rather uncharacteristically-Shaw stresses what is most valid on both sides rather than what is most vulnerable. He portrays Joan not as a defiantly heroic figure but as a truly mystical one, acting from compulsion rather than choice. He portrays the church less in terms of ethics than of authority, as possessing a sort of spiritual right of eminent domain. All this endows the trial scene with a particular dignity and affirmativeness, and with the right resounding orchestration. In the main, Shaw resists his usual mocking passages for flute or oboe, those sour...
...fastens lovingly on the past-a past of piety and chivalry. The Holy Sinner is his reworking of a much-told medieval tale: a child is born of incest, lives to sin gravely on his own account, but finally, thanks to God's mercy and his own heroic penance, becomes the Pope of Rome. One of Mann's reasons for going back to the old legendary story: his notion that; after him, there may be nobody to retell...
...Then it fell into disuse in the federal service, although Texas and some other states had constabulary troops called Rangers. During World War II, the U.S. Army did not adopt the British term "commando," and again called its special troops Rangers. They moved dangerously behind enemy lines, compiled a heroic record...
Inside the Kremlin. Much more can be pieced together from Westerners who have met him, and from escaped Soviet airmen who served in Poland and Germany with or under him. Their picture of Vasily is not quite so heroic. Vasily Iosifovich Dzhugashvili Stalin was bora in 1921 or 1922, probably in Moscow (no one is quite sure). Lenin was still alive. Joseph Stalin, in his middle 40s, was then Commissar of Nationalities and engaged in a bitter and bloody civil war. His first wife, Katerina Svanidze, had died four years before, and Stalin had taken as his second wife...