Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Castigator Lewis, Slightly Relieved, Hammers Out a Heroism...
...well-known to need citation. The names of Trudeau, Bergoine, Becquerel, Muller, Macfayden, and hosts of this who have died in the service of humanity are too deeply engraved in the medical and scientific history of the world to fade with the passage of time. There is an impersonal heroism in such quiet sacrifice that endures while other more briefly startling varieties sink gently into oblivion...
...greatest character is himself, the artist struggling against the philosopher, the doer struggling with the dreamer. This is a book everyone should read. It is, in my humble opinion, a great piece of autobiographical writing. This was his conflict; this was his problem from the earliest days. He essayed heroism in the Spanish War, being of the stuff of his father, who dreamed dreams of heroism in the Civil War and spun tales of visualized if not actual valor. Then Anderson became a manufacturer. He owned a factory. In a factory, the soul is destroyed, but before destruction sets...
Bach. An all-Bach program is a rare and alarming event. To attempt such a thing shows moral heroism and crowning self-confidence. To attempt it successfully shows an amazing talent, a masterly technique. Harold Samuel, British apostle of Johann Sebastian Bach, showed all of those qualities at his first recital in Aeolian Hall...
...propaganda value of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, both in the novel and film forms, has never been calculated. But its violent assertion of feeling was an extra puff of wind to raise even higher the wave of antagonism toward all things German. The mere depiction of French heroism, regardless to the end to which that dauntless effort was directed, was a rousing stimulus to European and American imagination and cooperation...