Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME cover that never ran (see cut). Last week the world learned that there had indeed been no compromise-either on the part of Imre Nagy or on the part of Nikita Khrushchev. The reasons for Nagy's obduracy in not confessing before his execution were simple and heroic; those of Khrushchev were neither. For what the West knows-and for what it can only guess-about Khrushchev's motives, see FOREIGN NEWS, The Cause of Murder...
...prize includes an award of $2,000. Honorable mention went to Cedric H. Whitman, associate professor of Greek and Latin, for his book, Homer and the Heroic Tradition, which will be published on June 13. The fourth annual Prize will be awarded next spring...
When one considers the past track season in retrospect, it becomes more and more apparent that Crimson coach Bill McCurdy's retaining his effervescent joviality at all times was either a heroic job of self-control, or complete resignation to the inevitable...
...Nudes by Rubens. The Larkins are seasonal strawberry pickers, and their way of life might be called Rabelaissezfaire. When Pop vents his heroic belches, he sounds like Charles Laughton playing Henry VIII. Pop is little seen in the strawberry fields, for he roams the countryside on a spivishly freewheeling enterprise called "the scrap iron lark," which nets him a 600% profit, a margin Pop regards as "perfick." Spacious, sportive Ma Larkin furnishes a groaning bed and board, fills her voluminous pink nylon nighties like two nudes by Rubens. Wed only in the sight of the common...
...intoxication is gone, and the feeling of superhuman power is replaced by the dull ache of responsibility. Many Asian lands-Burma, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Korea, Ceylon-are by now some ten years into the grey morning-after of independence, and political leaders who had once been dashing conspirators and heroic guerrilla captains have become aging politicians, surrounded by corruption, inefficiency and rivalry. All but the most obtuse are ready to admit that throwing out the imperialists was the easiest part of their job, and concede that they have just about run out of ideas for combatting Asia's measureless...