Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jubilant quorum of the 14 California Communist leaders in whose cases the U.S. Supreme Court had just ordered acquittal (for five), and new trials (for nine). Spokesman Connelly was giving out the new Red line that Communist martyrdom (including, said Manhattan's Daily Worker, those "sublimely heroic" atom spies, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg) had broadened the liberties of all Americans. More accurately, the court had just considerably narrowed the law against the activities of Communist leaders...
...HEROIC measures have been taken through the centuries to preserve the art of ancient civilizations, but in some cases the best preservation was disguised as destruction. Swallowed up and believed lost forever when ships carrying them went down, countless Greek statues rested at the bottom of the sea for a couple of millenniums. Now many of them have been fished out, and it is plain that Father Neptune was a first-rate curator. Among others, three bronzes, of a god a philosopher and a youth (opposite), came up looking little the worse for their long immersion, were sent back...
When it is not peeking in upon Northern boys swearing love to dainty Southern belles, and dashing Southern gentlemen swearing love to Northern girls, the movie pursues a great epic-theme: the heroic South certainly got a rotten deal after the Civil War. In an attempt to insure that "carpetbagger" will leave a bitter taste in every moviegoer's mouth, the film details the labor pains of the nation's birth...
Glinka: A Life for the Tsar (the National Opera of Belgrade, Oscar Danon conducting; London, 4 LPs). In this Communist-approved version of Glinka's 19th-century flag-waver, as in other current versions, attention has been directed away from the young Tsar and focused on the heroic popular leaders of the national uprising against the invading Poles in 1611-13. With that party-line emendation, the opera's melodramatic plot has been preserved intact. Weak in leading roles (Bass Miro Changalovich and Soprano Maria Glavachevich), the present version is thunderously impressive in its choral and ensemble passages...
...with some difficulty that we hold back the tears when we realize the tragic bravery of Josephine. Her cause is no doubt a lost one, but her efforts are truly heroic, for good old Josephine (our favorite whooping crane) has tried to make another...