Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presents a stereotypical version of the key signers of the Declaration of Independence and their sometimes abrasive, sometimes soporific deliberations at the Second Continental Congress. The musical succeeds only in bringing the heroic, tempestuous birth of a people and a polity down to a feeble vaudevillian jape...
...Ethel, says Eunice Shriver, "Bobby was everything: the best sailor, the best skier?a hero who could easily climb Mount Everest if he wanted to." To keep up with him Ethel went to some pretty heroic lengths herself. Art Buchwald recalls a camping trip on which Ethel hiked seven miles out of the Grand Canyon in 119° heat: "I didn't think any woman could do that. Maybe no woman but Ethel could...
...presents a stereotypical version of the key signers of the Declaration of Independence and their sometimes abrasive, sometimes soporific deliberations at the Second Continental Congress. The musical succeeds only in bringing the heroic, tempestuous birth of a people and a polity down to a feeble vaudevillian jape...
Boston fans are not noted for their unwavering loyalty. They jeered Ted Williams through every grand derisive gesture, and even the consistently heroic Bill Russell is treated to a cacophony of catcalls during his rare falls from hard-court grace. But this year Brahmins and Black Irish alike have had nothing but praise for their beloved Bruins, who at week's end were in second place behind Montreal, the National Hockey League's perennial champions. Skating, shooting and clubbing their way to their best finish in ten years, the Bruins shattered all N.H.L. team-scoring records...
...Tears, idle tears . . . tears from the depth of some divine despair." Characteristically trying to keep cheerful, Lear referred to his own numbing bouts of depression as "the morbids." His versifier's reaction to such metaphysical miseries would never win him the laureateship, but they essayed an heroic humor outside Tennyson's reach...