Word: heroisms
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...ring like bugles. They tell of bloody and costly battles in wars over the centuries: Courtrai, Passendale, Ypres ("Wipers" to the Tommy of World War I), and Armentiéres (whose "Mademoiselle" was invented to wipe out the memory of grimmer realities). In World War II, the tragedy and heroism of Dunkirk were played out on a Flemish beach...
...Yorkshire artist who firmly believes that life is grim and men are heroic just to live it. For his second one-man show, on exhibition last week at London's Beaux Arts Gallery, Artist Smith produced 15 examples of what he calls life's "acts of heroism." His big, life-size painting of a baby taking its first step beams with self-conscious bravery; his old lady in a wicker chair, a sort of off-key Whistler's mother, is the essence of enduring patience. Even his cadaverous Skid Row figures, asleep amid prowling mongrels...
With Hoagy Carmichael at the piano, Miss Bacall at the bar and Bogart at his favorite attitude of tight-lipped heroism, To Have And Have Not is at a near-peak of movie making. Its sometimes loose construction and frequent mawkish patriotism make it the more enjoyable as tiny imperfections in beloved people and objects only add to their charm. Hemingway's mediocre novel has been screened several times, but this is the best. ROBERT J. SCHOENBURG
...airstrip. Outside his ward in the military hospital at Hanoi, the corridors are filled with other wounded, in cots crowded head to foot in a row. The legionnaire talks matter-of-factly of the paratroop drop and of the wound he got only half an hour after landing; no heroism, no bravado, no whimpering, just acceptance of his fate and future. You are reminded of his face often when anger rises in you over the situation in Indo-China. You find yourself resisting the impulse to understand everyone and wishing only that you could stay angry and hortatory...
...same deftness of line and surprise of situation that both Huston and Bogart have become known for is in Beat the Devil. The secret, of course, lies in conceiving enough flamboyantly wicked characters to off-set Bogart's flashy heroism. In this case, Huston and Capote have hit a peak. From a tiny British Major who worships the memories of Mussolini and Hitler, to a German from Chile called O'Hara, the people of Beat the Devil are geniuses of evil and eccentricity...