Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frequent performances of the overworked A flat Polonaise have varied considerably; the recorded version coincides with his Boston presentation in emphasizing its tympanic brashness rather than its heroic power...
Tear the Wall. German delegates mingled with such survivors of Nazi oppression as Norway's heroic Bishop Eivind Berggrav, France's Protestant leader Marc Boegner, as the Archbishop of Canterbury prayed for the tearing down of the wall that "separates and divides." Star speaker was Germany's Martin Niemoller*, who made a heartfelt confession of his country's guilt, and at least a partial atone ment for his previous statement that a "good German" does not ask whether or not Germany's cause is just...
...reissue of Critic Mark Van Doren's prosaic, reasonable book about Poet John Dryden* provoked the New York Post's Reviewer Sterling North, who has been similarly provoked before, to a brisk whirl of Drydenesque heroic couplets. In 32 rough (but sometimes very ready) didactic verses, he reproduced a spat between "Seraph Pro" and "Archangel Con," before a Heavenly Critics' jury for the Book of the Aeon Club...
...Army last December chopped up the Pacific into four competitive zones, then plunged into a wholesale, 15-sport Olympics. For the Army Air Forces, which did a heroic shuttle job (example: G.I. horseshoe pitchers were flown from Honolulu to Korea for interzone eliminations), it was a big job. Last week, with full colonels competing with and against buck privates, the program reached its final fury. Major-sport results...
...Expendable has to say or do anything embarrassingly mushy or heroic. No one has to crack any bad jokes: Characters are brought in without formal introduction and bowed out before the audience gets to know them well. Human relationships are indicated sharply but briefly. In trying to steer between war melodrama and straight documentary reporting, Expendable beats a middle course through waters that are too rough for speed...