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...that Howard, a fine actor, is doing a bad job. He is simply responding to Director Terry Hands' imposed conception of the play. Hands clearly wants to get entirely away from any thing overtly heroic or proudly patriotic. Such an aim, however, is difficult to square with the text and tenor of the play. Once one accepts the limitations of the director's concept, there is nothing to fault in the brio of the cast, the racehorse pace or the sense of battle-weary valor conveyed. There are different ways of showing British pluck. Dunkirk is not Agincourt...
...generation of guitar virtuosos. But the Spanish-born musician is no stranger to the concert hall; along with Brothers Celin and Pepe, Angel has been appearing with Papa Celedonio Romero's family quartet since he was six. Angel's Spanish guitar music vibrates with the heroic digital work and high coloration associated with the repertory. He peels off Tarrega's Chopinesque Estudio Brillante in a fiery burst of romanticism. He can be soft-spoken when the music calls for it: his Scarlatti is a model of baroque clarity and balance...
...East, and were sold out by English duplicity and Islamic squabbling after 1918. He has been dead 40 years. In the meantime, there have been as many Lawrences as writers: the adulated hero (Robert Graves), the narcissistic moral cynic (Richard Aldington), the Hamlet, the Lord Jim of Araby, the heroic closet queen, and so on down to the sexy, prancing psychotic portrayed by Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia. In A Prince of Our Disorder, Harvard Psychiatry Professor John Mack has absorbed them all. His prose has the texture of gray felt, but it takes us closer...
After the war, the object was not to control the river but to span it. There had been bridges before, most notably the Great Bridge of 1649. It had been a heroic effort for the small community of Cambridge. Heroic and exhausted, for when it began to crumble soon after, the townspeople were willing to spend neither the time nor the money to restore it Eventually the bridge fell into the river and the commuting public returned to Mr. Cooke's penny ferry. After Mr. Cooke, Harvard College ran the ferry, the same boat to Charlestown that Paul Revere used...
...some, the decision comes with a shock of disgusted recognition, like a less heroic version of Hemingway's Lieut. Henry bidding a farewell to arms by jumping into the frigid Tagliamento River...