Word: heroical
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Many movies ago, we were duly convinced that the American schoolmarm is a figure of heroic proportions. It is she, we found, who tirelessly molds our youth and starts it on the familiar path from red-brick school to White House. Always she sacrifices; always she loses her lover; always she is honored at the final fade...
This corny ditty became almost sanctified by the countless heroic circumstances under which it was sung during World War I. The words were written in 1915 by a British vaudeville actor named George Powell. He and his piano-playing brother, Felix Lloyd Powell, who wrote the music, netted $60,000 from the song...
...were shorter, more compact, and perhaps a little less heroic in tone, "One Foot in Heaven" might rank as one of the outstanding movies of the year. As it is, it's rather tiring and dull. But its high-spots are worth seeing; they make you wish there were more of them...
Last Time. To many an American who recalls the formidable adventures of German U-boat skippers like Von Nostitz, Janckendorf and Koenig, reports of abandoned survivors and gun-strafed life rafts were far cries from the heroic U-boat actions of the last war. Then the sleek, expertly manned underwater craft slipped boldly into shore waters, in less than six months of 1918 they sowed mines, sank six steamships and 31 other vessels. Then their commanding officers were fighting gentlemen who usually took excellent care of their prisoners and actually had fun matching wits with frantic U.S. harbor-defense units...
...Tolstoy, and the early Gertrude Stein. Her five senses are nearer the page than those of most authors. At her best she has a remarkable talent for telling a thing so that it seems not to be told about but actually to happen. Yet her narrative is never quite heroic and her superbly ordered peasant simplicities keep sieving-off into the remote beauties of ballet...