Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However stilted, the painting conjures up the ideal of a bygone age, giving to history a heroic sense rather than data processing it. Leutze even persuaded his exacting student Albert Bierstadt, then 24 (later to become one of the chief chroniclers of the Rocky Mountain landscape), to climb a ladder and touch up the bright sky on the left. There was precious little tranquillity that he could add to the blood-and-thunder turbulence of gun smoke...
...scene and detail. He freights it with learning and lively language. He floods it with his unique virtues-and the book drowns. Gustavus and Oxenstierna are the most real figures, but they are not really seen in action but in a series of stills, like a set of heroic paintings-"The Last Meeting," "Meditation in the Garden," "The King Falls in Battle." Lars and his sister are truly pitiable, but they are surrounded by grotesques, and at the end are dispatched with the terrible coldness of boredom...
...Alexander Nevsky, the dramatic action benefits from a lack of ideological grist. This 13th century chronicle bears its age better than any other of Eisenstein's films. There is room for characterization and for dramatic imagination. The result is one of the last heroic spectacles to be made without a bedroom scene. Prokofiev's stirring score helps carry the action along, and the film's exuberance and good humor make even Eisenstein's most transparent gimmicks enjoyable--such as the Teutonic knights who jog on unseen mechanical horses. Their full-scale charge across the frozen River Neva was filmed...
Kosygin did not openly promise aid, but he hit the unity theme while agreeing with Kim that "imperialist provocations" had brought all Communists closer together, added pointedly that Asian Communists are "unanimous in their desire to support the heroic peoples of Viet Nam." As if to tell the West that Kosygin meant business, Moscow put out rumors that Russia was "angry and worried" over the U.S. moves in Viet Nam and even raised the possibility that Moscow might send Soviet pilots to fly the jets it was giving to Hanoi...
...condition is that Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, who still lives in the U.S. legation on Freedom Square in Budapest, will play no active role in the Hungarian church. The Vatican is reluctant to negotiate any settlement over Mindszenty's head, would like to find a way for the heroic old cardinal to leave the country with peace and honor. Thus negotiations in Hungary, in the words of Monsignor Agostino Casaroli, the Vatican diplomat who arranged the September agreement, "are at the beginning of the beginning." Meanwhile, churches are wellattended...