Word: warriorism
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...fired from the casts of Death Takes a Holiday and The Animal Kingdom. Critics then, as now, disagreed about her talent. Kate says: "One lot said I was a lovely, graceful young creature. Another lot said I was gawky, hoydenish, gaunt, like something escaped from a tomb." In The Warrior's Husband, she was fired and rehired before the show reached Broadway. The play was a hit and so was Kate. As Antiope, an Amazon queen, Kate came hurtling down a ramp, lugging a prop deer; she wrestled with Actor Colin Keith-Johnston; she made prodigious leaps across stage...
This is not surprising. Her movie column has sometimes been the object of abuse and ridicule, her radio voice is uncomfortably nervous and high-pitched, she herself has not always been the subject of affectionate comment, and many competitors, including that spectacularly be-hatted warrior, Hedda Hopper, have tried to beat her at her own game. But in 1952 Louella Parsons, after reigning over a quarter century, is still queen of the Hollywood gossip columnists. Her work appears daily in twelve Hearstpapers and is syndicated in some 1,200 others throughout the world. She is held in awe, respect, esteem...
...clutch of modern music. Without so much as raising his sun-bleached eyebrows, he spoke the rhythmically complex narrator's part in the world premiere of Schönberg's Ode to Napoleon with the Philharmonic in 1944, sang the lead in Bernard Rogers' opera The Warrior...
...bloody 1906 uprising of the conquered Zulus, a 26-year-old Zulu warrior named Mdhlani Ngcobo remained loyal to the whites and was rewarded by being made head man of his village. Mdhlani married, prospered, begat children, grew old, respected and respectable. But one son, Clifford, became a thief and a gangster. Three years ago, son Clifford, all his bravado gone, crept into his father's hut. He whispered that he had murdered a white Durban policeman, and blubbered: "They will hang...
...lines of his face. For 20 years he had suffered, with dignity and without complaint, an auto da fé of criticism such as few men, even in public life, have ever endured. But this was his night among friends, his night for the homage due an ancient warrior. The uproar lasted for 13 long minutes...