Word: heroic
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...have been no Strauss, and were it not for Strauss, there could be no proper use for an orchestra as mightily sonorous as the Boston Symphony Orchestra can become when Conductor Erich Leinsdorf is in a mood to encourage grandeur. Here, Leins-dorf's orchestra is at its heroic best and so, as a result, is Strauss's music...
...carillon who gather yearly to talk about what's new in bell ringing. Last week at the Washington Cathedral's inaugural recital on its new $250,000, 53-bell carillon, it was obvious that the church fathers knew just whom to hire to handle their heroic instru ment. The man at the keyboard was Guild President Ronald Barnes...
...theory of the survival of the fittest had been bor rowed by the imperialists. Darwin was joined by John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer and Charles Lyell. Thomas Henry Huxley was moved to sardonic eloquence: "I daresay Eyre did all this with the best of motives, and in a heroic vein. But if English law will not declare that heroes have no more right to kill in this fashion than other folk, I shall take an early opportunity of migrating to Texas or some other quiet place where there is less hero worship and more respect for justice...
...each. A few artists, such as Picasso and De Kooning, were by their own request hors concours. After that, the judges-British Art Expert Douglas Cooper, Andrew Ritchie, director of the Yale University Art Gallery, and Peter Wilson, chairman of Sotheby's, the London art auctioneers-did their heroic, committee-like best. One prize went to the immaculate realist Alex Colville, like Beaverbrook a native of New Brunswick, partly because-as one judge put it-"we all felt one Canadian ought to be chosen as a matter of courtesy...
...stunning consistency, with the fire and élan of spirits snatched out of themselves and whirled away in the tremendous whirlwind of the spirit of the age they have wrung out of their hearts remarkable efforts of film. They have evolved through the last decade a vast pageant of heroic drama and gentle eclogue, of delectable gaiety and dispirited lust, of mordant wit, glittering intellect, grey despair, apocalyptic spectacle and somber religious depth. They have held the camera up to life and shown humanity a true and terrifying and yet somehow heartbreakingly beautiful image of itself. They have created...