Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from her fellow critics. Movies are no peripheral affair for her but the most interesting fact of her life. "They move so fast into the bloodstream," she says. For this reason, she does not lightly suffer actors who give less than their all. "He seems more eccentric than heroic," she wrote of Marlon Brando's performance in Mutiny on the Bounty. "He's like a short, flabby tenor wandering around the stage and not singing; you wonder what he's doing there." She described Dirk Bogarde in Accident: "He aches all the time all over, like an all-purpose sufferer...
...eventually ended labor's general strike, and he pleaded with De Gaulle to live above the crisis for as long as possible. When the President did proclaim his intention to stand fast in the dramatic speech that brought a beginning of order, he singled out Pompidou's heroic efforts: "I will not change the Premier, whose worth, whose steadfastness, whose capacities merit the homage of everyone...
...ARMIES OF THE NIGHT, by Norman Mailer. With unabashed language and unblushing candor, the author delineates his own mock-heroic role during last fall's peace assault on the Pentagon...
Robert Lowell, D.LET., poet. In your plays and poems, you teach us that we are all actors in a single drama, where it is as urgent to be heroic as it is easy to be absurd...
...chosen the proper moment to move: the striking workers were running out of money (the French unions have no strike funds), and the nation as a whole was tired of the inconveniences of living in an immobilized country. Partly, too, it was the response of a nation to a heroic leader. The turnabout illumined the dilemma of the majority in an age of instant communication, when extremists can command publicity that inflates their influence out of all proportion to their numbers. When De Gaulle took his stand, the ordinary middle-class people of France finally had an opportunity to stand...