Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stewart is the second Master to announce a sabbatical for next year. Reuben A. Brower, Master of Adams House and professor of English, will spend next year in London and Greece preparing a book on Shakespeare and the Graeco-Roman heroic tradition...
...hardly likely to build a new sea-level canal in Panama if further riots erupted, President Robles took the play into his own hands as the January anniversary approached. After long sessions with his advisers and Guardia Colonel Bolívar Vallarino, he paid solemn homage to the "heroic sacrifice" of the 21 Panamanian "martyrs" (while neglecting to mention that at least nine were killed accidentally by other Panamanians), publicly promised a completely new treaty to replace the hated 1903 pact that gives the U.S. sovereign ty over the Canal Zone. He allowed the agitators to make their speeches, burn...
...neurotic Southern aristocrat. They have (what else?) an idiot child. Hero Reeve Scott is a young Negro just returned from the Army, determined to fight for his rights and not let Henry Warren steal his patch of land away from him. Reeve's mother is (what else?) the heroic matriarch who long ago was Miss Julie-Ann's black mammy. There are elegant dinners and a dynamiting, a courtroom scene and a prefrontal lobotomy. Doom impends...
...excellences, Werth's book is as irritating as the kind of Christmas present that has dozens of valuable tiny pieces to be groped for in a large box stuffed with shredded paper and excelsior. The style swings from a somewhat wide-eyed journalese to a plodding heroic prose. The best parts, it turns out, are lifted in great chunks from his earlier books of war reporting. He quotes endlessly from Pravda and Red Star editorials; he pads out his pages with Supreme Soviet speeches complete with the ritual enthusiasm of "(prolonged, stormy applause)"; he is mercilessly repetitious...
...often, Werth converts his justifiably high regard for the heroic Russian people into excuse-making for tyrannies of the Soviet state, such as the confiscation of all private radio receivers or the summary street-corner execution of suspected civilian traitors. The most egregious example is his treatment of the controversy over the tragic Warsaw uprising in the summer of 1944. The consensus of Western historians holds that Stalin apparently held back the capture of that city until the anti-Communist Polish underground was destroyed by the Germans. After a seesawing summary of the argument, but without substantial new evidence, Werth...