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...Germany, Jess Thomas is known as a jugendlicher Heldentenor. Put lit erally, it means young heroic tenor...
...according to Thomas, it means that he has "the heroic amount of guts" needed to sing Wagnerian roles. Put in the U.S., it means that Thomas is the first and most notable of what appears to be a new stable of American heldentenors: men with the projection of a foghorn, the endurance of a marathon cyclist and the range of an ICBM. Most have an ego to match...
...should consider the human cost of social engineering was for Lenin almost unthinkable...It was, then, almost natural to suggest that for the people at large the Revolution and the Civil War were accompanied by only minor inconveniences when weighed against the glory and excitement of participating in the heroic struggle... When he did remember the human cost of the Revolution Lenin, following the example of Marx and Engels, was fond of the image of birth pains...
...choice of Westmoreland is outrageous and is offensive to all who work and pray for peace. We need recognition for men of heroic stature in thought and action, not for military mediocrities who achieve incidental prominence through a tragic error of history...
...Bulge toward the grandiose tank battle that eventually spells German defeat, but all the rest of the picture seems to run on sheer gall. On the questionable assumption that ferocious truth must be offset by comedy relief, there is a black-marketeering U.S. sergeant (Telly Savalas) who blunders into heroic deeds. Even the massacre of 125 G.I. prisoners at Malmédy has a silver lining, since it turns simpering Lieut. James MacArthur into a fit soldier...