Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What a remarkable contrast to your Feb. 5 cover story heralding the new Joint Chiefs of Staff with the phrase, "Thinkers and managers replace the heroes"! You have rediscovered the heroic among the managers of modern warfare: gladiators do make team...
...movies. The movies work, when they're in focus. A montage of selected orgy scenes appears on the screen in one scene break, a collection of sneers from great art in the next. Einar Anderson's score seems a little makeshift, and the orchestra under-rehearsed. But the mock-heroic music often plays against the everpresent ranting on the stage with satiric punch, and covers up some of the still-shaky set changes...
...weapon that removes part of the glamorous, heroic aspect of warfare is a giant step forward toward ultimate peace. If all weapons could be nonlethal, the ridiculousness of war would be truly manifest...
...most important picture that Larry Rivers ever painted was Washington Crossing the Delaware. He was only redoing Emanuel Leutze's heroic tableau, painted in 1851 in Düsseldorf, which was in itself a pretty dubious romanticization of the past. But in 1953, with abstract expressionism firing off its salvos, Rivers might as well have glorified Benedict Arnold. Rivers was put down by the avant-garde as a reactionary, a brush-brandishing brontosaurus, or worst of all, a realist...
...close friend of Helen Keller, the author said that she has a "special feeling for Radcliffe, because of the picture I have of a blind, denf and dumb girl passing its examinations. No fairy tale was ever more heroic...