Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Martin of Tours, a 4th century Roman soldier. Something of a Samaritan himself, St. Martin, in the depths of the drastic, winter of 332 A.D. in France, cut his cloak in two with his sword and gave half to a freezing beggar. To give full scope to his heroic theme, Milles carved a 14-ft.-high figure of St. Martin on horseback splitting his cloak, and the beggar, hand upraised, at the base of the pedestal...
...judge by the Suez crisis, if Hammarskjold succeeds in damping down the Lebanese and Jordanian crises enough to warrant U.S. and British withdrawal, Arab poets a year hence will be writing songs in praise of the heroic Lebanese and Jordanian patriots who fearlessly drove the Western imperialists into...
...terms of the old nursery jingle no more crooked man walked a longer mile than Thomas Gage, an English Dominican friar turned Protestant clergyman, and no man more thoroughly squandered the possibility of a heroic memory as missionary, adventurer and writer. Thomas Gage is forgotten today so that his name is not even listed in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, yet his narrative of his travels in the New World deserves a place with the classics of exploration...
...annals of history," Nasser has written, "are full of heroes who carved for themselves great and heroic roles, and played them on momentous occasions. It seems to me that in the Arab world there is a role wandering in search of a hero." Nasser volunteered to be that hero...
...into a procession of operatic heroines - Manon Lescaut, Mimi in Bohème, Cio-Cio-San in Butterfly, Liù in Turandot. His obsession with swift love followed by swifter death gave his work a narrow emotional range, a failing of which he was conscious. He envied Wagner his heroic themes and majestic brasses, idolized Verdi's poetic tragedies, in later life even made an effort to understand the moderns (although on first hearing he thought Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps "the creation of a madman...