Word: heroics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...folly, nor a mere survival of a primitive herd instinct, but the noblest act of the most highly developed creature on the earth. The memory of the young men who died in the war is too fresh in our minds to let us think for a moment that their heroic deaths were due to a cold conviction of personal advantage or enlightened self interest. They did not want to die; but they went forth knowing the danger, even courting it, from a profound sense of duty. No one shall persuade us that they did so from a traditional but irrational...
...room by the intriguing Talleyrand, who sees in him a tremendously powerful political force which he, Talleyrand, seeks control. During a stirring interview which, through Beranger's characterization of him and his own speech and action, gives new and valuable insight into Talleyrand's character, Beranger states his heroic principles and gives his final answer...
Classic literature is full of parody. The Batrachomyomachia--"Battle of the Frogs and Mice"-- a travesty of the heroic epic, was long attributed to Homer, and certainly is as old as the fifth century before Christ. Aristophanes mimicked Euripides with side splitting and enraging effectiveness. Cervantes' Don Quixote is sheer parody. In our own language we have a great volume of comic imitation. Shakespeare parodied and was parodied. Milton's ponderous solemnity was the subject of endless ribald travesty in his own momentous metre. Shelley did not shame to lampoon dear old Wordsworth...
...benefits; it is something to which we must give service as well. We can not only take from democracy, we must give something to it. Whenever a great emergency has faced our country college men have been among the foremost to offer themselves in service and their heroic sacrifices in every war of our nation have made a glorious page in the history of all the colleges. There is need of service in peace, however, as well as in war. There is need of service of high idealism and in that service in peace time the college...
...success, can never hope to accomplish a permanent reform. Until the representative audience can appreciate a steady diet of good plays, the "Demi-Virgin" type of production will persevere. Unless this outside education of the audience can be accomplished, it may be necessary to apply St. John Ervine's heroic remedy a moratorium of the drama a closing of all theatres until the audience is ready to make the spiritual effort to meet the playwright halfway...