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Serbocroation Heroic Songs. Vol. I, Novi Pazar: English Translations. Wilman Parry...
Minimal sculpture, when seen indoors, commonly overwhelms the viewer. Outdoors, it takes on what Curator Tuchman, 30, calls "a heroic quality." Besides, it gets the benefits of the California sunshine, which Tuchman, who is a recent migrant from New York, describes rhapsodically as "more diffuse, more intense, with a pervasive glare, a kind of luminescence." Sol Lewitt's white jungle gym, for instance, gains a thousand chunky highlights from the sun. The California show also clearly demonstrates that the new cool geometry, which is often combined with bright color or gleaming industrial surfaces, is a truly nationwide movement...
...distributed among senior army, navy and air force officers and a few compliant civilians. In an action that had a certain tone of the Red Guard to it, they ordered the Greek radio to play martial music and give forth tirelessly with such slogans as "Let us take our heroic ancestors for an example" and "Let the flowers of regeneration bloom over the debris of the regime of falsehood...
Long ago J.W.Duff, one of the standard historians of Latin literature suggested that Juvenal's pointed hexameters might better be rendered in English with the use of blank verse than with the rhymed heroic couplet,Johnson notwithstanding. This, because blank verse, as the traditional meter of English narrative poetry might evoke for English readers of Juvenal what that poet, following the examples of Lucilius and Horace, evoked for Roman readers of satire: the suggestion of an ironic tone through the epic ring of the hexameter, used for very serious purposes by Lucretius and Virgil. Lowell has done exactly this...
...failure of the communist regimes to develop "communist morality," and inculcate communist-defined "ideal types," can be seen in the results of a survey of Hungarian school children. The majority chose the "bourgeois" hero Robin Hood over both Marx and Lenin when responding to questions concerning figures perceived as heroic types. When asked why, the children cited the qualities of bravery, honesty, and loyalty--not the most important of the behavior traits which communist regimes seek to instill in its young citizens. Only 9.5 percent of the school children chose "heroes of the workers' movement" as their ideal. Interestingly...