Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heroic age of Communism is over" in Russia, Merle Fainsod, professor of Government, declared last night in discussing "Controls and Tensions in the Soviet System" at the first Leverett House Forum this year...
...major pieces had been partly in spired, said Marini, by the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius in Rome's Pi azza del Campidoglio. But there was noth ing conventionally heroic about Marini's riders ; they were scared, not proud. They looked, indeed, very much like lonely, out size babies mounted bareback on broad, unbridled Mongolian ponies - going no where. Marini had carved them with mingled delicacy and deliberate awkward ness, sacrificing handsomeness to pathos...
...Linking the Communist Party and the Catholic Church as oppressors . . . is stupidly ridiculous. Any person reading the news, whether he is biased or unbiased, knows that the Catholic Church and its heroic hierarchy is locked in a life-and-death struggle with Russian Communism in Europe and elsewhere. And this struggle, incidentally, is for both religious and civil liberty...
...season's first Tristan, which Perlea directed, sounded different from any performance they had ever heard before. The voices were familiar: Melchior and Traubel sang the title roles. But the performance seemed to have a new sweetness and clarity, a subdued splendor. Says Perlea, "Too many conductors mistake heroic for loud." In Rigoletto, he proved that he knew how to build a musical melodrama without throwing away climaxes. The result: when the real climax came in the last-act murder scene, it was overwhelming. Carmen was the same story; with the pace he gave Bizet's fast-moving...