Word: heroical
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...Seventh Symphony's proportions are heroic, most obviously so in the 27-minute first movement. The deceptively simple opening melody, suggestive of peace, work, hope, is interrupted by the theme of war, "senseless, implacable and brutal." For this martial theme Shostakovich resorts to a musical trick: the violins, tapping the backs of their bows, introduce a tune that might have come from a puppet show. This tiny drumming, at first almost inaudible, mounts and swells, is repeated twelve times in a continuous twelve-minute crescendo. The theme is not developed but simply grows in volume like Ravel...
...Trucks. Any scheme to employ planes on such a grand scale is as heroic in composition as a Beethoven symphony, as knotty in detail as differential calculus. It is a task for poetic imagination far grander than Tennyson's in Locksley Hall, which 100 years ago "saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales. . . ." And it is an even greater practical task. But the argosies are being planned. The Army says that by the end of this summer cargo cartage by air will be the biggest single...
Time for Heroes? A few people wondered whether this was any time for heroic ceremonies. Some of the heroes themselves wondered. They were tired almost from the start. There is something exhilarating about coming back from a low-level bombing, from a raid over Germany at night. What about returning from a strange nightclub in a strange city to a strange hotel? Said one of the British heroes: "It's been bad physically and mentally...
...well deserved. Painter Curry had just finished two of the biggest painting jobs of his life. Off & on for the past three years, in the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka, and in the University of Wisconsin's law school, he had been hard at work on the heroic figures and lowering backgrounds of a new set of murals...
...painters tried to do likewise. Patronized by WPA on a scale unequaled even by the Renaissance Church, they began earnestly plastering the walls of U.S. post offices and courthouses with attempts at monumentality. By 1940 they had created some 1,550 murals. Many sought heroic subject matter in modern industrialism; turning out acres of dynamos, steam presses, and blast furnaces. Because their ambition often outweighed the strength and clarity of their convictions, most of these murals were failures. Only a few have come close to striking the common man as embodiments of his ideals. High on the list of successful...