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...work in this picture. The character of Captain Bligh, as presented to posterity by Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall, was remarkable for combining, with the peevish, effeminate cruelty which caused the Bounty's crew to set him adrift in an open boat in mid-Pacific, that cool, incredible heroism which enabled the boat, propelled as much by the force of Bligh's indomitable determination as by wind or oars, to reach the Dutch island of Timor, across 3,600 miles of open sea. In Mutiny on the Bounty, the magnificence of Laughton's work rests largely...
...most extraordinary quality of Seven Pillars of Wisdom is that, almost alone among modern War books, it invests warfare with a degree of glamour and heroism. Nor is this quality purchased by avoiding the gruesome butcheries, stench, gore and decay characteristic of battlefields. The glamour of Seven Pillars of Wisdom springs from the fact that most of the actions undertaken, audacious examples of individual daring such as raids into enemy country, are described with a light and mocking air, as if they were little more than schoolboy pranks. Lawrence evidently treasured all human life except his own. He was constantly...
Should Richard and Henry Ames have died in an ordinary manner, their deaths would have come as an irreparable loss to Harvard; but the acts of heroism with which they gave up their lives make their story a living force for their College...
...deeds have been forgotten, and he is remembered as the author of great models of Latin prose over which schoolboys still suffer. Last week Dr. George Chatterton Richards, offering a biography that called belated attention to the great orator's political virtues, tried to show the heroism and timeliness of Cicero's many middle-of-the-road perplexities...
...events of "the Forty-five" leading up to the bloody collapse at Culloden, Author Mackenzie tells little, concentrates on the loyal heroism of Prince Charlie's protectors after the battle, when redcoats combed the country for him. One of his hostesses, Anne Macintosh, on a visit to London three years after, found herself dancing with the Duke of Cumberland (known to all good Jacobites as "the Butcher of Culloden"). The first dance over, she asked if she might choose the air for the second, called for The Auld Stuarts Back Again...