Word: heroics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...close. To see the whole he must stand back. By their sheer size the paintings scream for recognition, protesting the decreasing space in an overpopulated world. At first the enormity of the entire 34-room exhibition dwarfs the viewer. Yet the dynamism of art makes him empathize with the heroic stature or the visions before...
Voltaire was most nearly heroic in his stand against the church. In 1762, he fought to exonerate the name of a Protestant shopkeeper named Jean Galas, who had been tortured and killed on the false charge of murdering his son to prevent the boy's conversion to Catholicism. But Voltaire's pattern in criticizing both church and court was to attack and then back off. Though he is generally credited with being the intellectual architect of the French Revolution, he was not inclined to be a martyr...
When he died in 1907, Augustus Saint-Gaudens was solidly established as America's greatest sculptor, the creator of heroic public monuments such as New York's equestrian General Sherman, Chicago's standing Lincoln and Washington's Adams Memorial. His smaller, more intimate portrait reliefs are equally distinguished-naturally enough for an artist who started his career as a cameo cutter. In the first major exhibition of Saint-Gaudens' work in 60 years, Washington's National Portrait Gallery assembled 56 pieces, including portraits of such public figures as Architect Stanford White and Writers William...
FIRST DAY. As dawn streaked across the amber and gold foliage on a heroic fall day, Fred was already prowling the beach, studying the heart-shaped tracks. "They're here," he whispered. A rangy, rawboned man with the weathered look of a backwoods sage, he was wearing his favorite old camouflage jacket and a battered gray fedora. As he explored the island, half a dozen deer bolted from distant thickets, their upturned tails waving like white flags. Later, sipping black coffee out of a tin can, he smiled: "Looks like this is going to be too easy...
SACC-which held its own rally yesterday morning at 10 a.m.-announced last Friday its support of the NAC demands. but added that no change will "come through the violent, although heroic, actions...