Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...demanding title role is in the masterly hands of Barry Morse. Though still suffering on opening night from a throat and lung infection, he insisted with true Bergeracquian heroism on playing anyway. His performance certainly did not suffer, except for an occasionally gravelly voice. Morse can summon the panache, the spirit of bravura that the role requires. He becomes in turn all the things that make up Cyrano's character--braggadocio, courageous soldier, learned wit, testy quarreler, gallant lover, poetic lyricist, resigned indigent, noble altruist and pathetic but proud moribund. He gets a lot of variety out of his famous...
Died. Boatswain William H. Gowan, 72, 35-year Navyman who retired in 1942, one of the rare peacetime winners of the Medal of Honor, for "extraordinary heroism displayed by him during a conflagration [in a ship of the U.S. Navy] in Coquimbo, Chile, 20 January 1909"; of a heart attack, without friends, family or funeral expenses; in Brooklyn...
...November in his first public sermon after being released by the Communists. "Poles know how to die magnificently. But, my dear ones, Poles must learn to work magnificently. When one dies one may get glory quickly; but to live in toil, suffering pain and sacrifice for years is greater heroism, and this greater heroism is needed today...
...would say Mass. The would-be demonstrators thought that he was blessing their cause, and when Mass was over, they listened eagerly as he rose to preach. Quietly the cardinal told them what he has often repeated all over Poland: "You dreamt that this would be your dawn of heroism, and, I tell you, it is indeed your dawn of heroism. You are not heroes on the newsstands for having caused incalculable bloodshed, but heroes in truth because you have, in modest obscurity, renounced a hero's dream, clothed in the attractive gay mantle of glory. You are heroes...
...another. In combination with the drummer's rhythm, a raga gives the starting theme of a composition. The sitar player can improvise as long as he does not use notes other than those included in the basic raga. Each raga expresses an individual mood, e.g., tranquillity, loneliness, love, heroism, and is designed to be performed at a clearly specified hour...