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Tensely real, tensely heroic, Casablanca is a movie made without cynicism. It spins a story and a mood so involved and so real that on the way home, Mount Auburn Street looks cold and crooked and there is the suspicion that back of Cronin's, Bogie is smoking another cigarette and waiting...
Dramatic accounts of heroic emergency measures undertaken when a patient's heart stops in the middle of an operation, usually because of some condition unrelated to the heart, are becoming commonplace-too common, in the opinion of Surgeon William E. Bomar Jr. of Greenville, S.C. In the A.M.A. Journal...
...Fight. During the unrestrained violence of the dinner-table combat between Anne and Patty, the play reaches its peak-in one of the most nerve-shattering scenes ever acted on Broadway. Ordering the Kellers out of the room, Annie flails into the heroic task of teaching wild young Helen the rudiments of table manners. Food and silverware explode across the room. Little Helen rushes to the door to pound out a plea for freedom. Annie promptly wrestles her back to her seat. Again and again and again, the child escapes and is captured. Again and again, Annie meets the near...
...While "high tragedy requires an heroic alternative rejected," pathos emerges from a feeling that no alternatives exist. To say that "God is dead," as Nietzsche did, is tragic, because if He were alive He could save us. But to declare that God is absent is a "weary dismissal of all alternatives...
...brilliant, cynical, romantic wreck, and his life a brief, inglorious skidmark to the edge of eternity. According to this picture, he was a great, misunderstood man who was driven to drink by outrageous fortune, but just before his death he experienced a transfiguration in which the heroic drunk and the dissolving genius were transformed and redeemed in a last great love. The notion is so silly that not even the moviemakers could convince themselves it was true. Scarcely a line in Sy (The Big Country) Bartlett's script rings true, and some of them are almost ridiculously false...