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Where are the men of heroic proportions, soul-stirring, uniquely gifted, magnetic in inspiration, who can truly personify the leadership necessary to keep the U.S strong and worthy of world esteem...
Such was the heroic acting style of Laurence Olivier in the film of Henry V that it has somewhat distorted an entire generation's perception of the play...
...been painted from photographs, whether it was or not, for this is now the natural "look" of most American realism. If the exhibition is littered with homefried parodies of an earlier sublimity, it is because many of the artists could find only a conventional way of producing an "official" heroic landscape. Despite Art Historian Robert Rosenblum's benevolent claim in the catalogue that "in most of these works, the mood is one of exhilarating adventure and head-clearing oxygenation," the paint surface tends to go dead at the timber line: the mountain pictures, like Lowell
...apostate" Catholic who returned to the church after ten years of disowning it. Why? Because I find the whole scene exciting, and my church (defined as community, not hierarchy) just plain heroic...
Cabrera attacks the Cuban revolution simply by describing selected scenes. He tells of a waiter turned terrorist who becomes a police interrogator, lives in a confiscated mansion, and wins the rank of commander. He recalls some comic and heroic escapes, such as the two men who stowed away in the landing gear of a plane flying to Spain; one of them fell out during the journey but the other arrived eight hours later, half-frozen. The charge that the book spins is guilt by association: the Cuban Revolution was conceived in this tradition of violence and it is essentially...