Word: heroical
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...Heroic subjects are not fashionable among U.S. artists. But exuberant Jon Corbino, who this week opened an exhibition of turbulent canvases on Manhattan's 57th Street, loves to paint conflicts and catastrophes, swarming canvases in which full-blown nudes and horses writhe and rear in the throes of floods, shipwrecks, stampedes. And gallery-goers like his smoldering color and sweeping draftsmanship, which make the most innocent New England landscape seethe with dramatic struggle...
...whole. Two men did most to turn the isolationist drive: Texas' little, bald, Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House, and Massachusetts' long-toothed John McCormack. No heroes of the antique mold, they were political in-fighters doing a job for Franklin Roosevelt, but they sometimes seemed of heroic size in the dismal months...
...single heroic event, like the flight of Lindbergh to Paris in 1927, cut through the dead inertia of the prewar months-and the hero of that exploit now stood as one of the most tragic figures of U.S. history. No great books, plays, inventions, discoveries, testified to any creative vitality surging through the nation. No poet came up with a war song thundering the modern equivalent of Julia Ward Howe's "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord," that appeared seven months after Bull Run. In music, the Man of the Year...
...underestimated. Once again the impregnable has been assaulted. Once again British forces have gone out to battle inadequately supported from the air. Once again the boasts of the week before the campaign began have been made to look silly. Once again the public have been fed on stories of heroic stands and gallant retreats...
Militarily the loss of Hong Kong means little. Its strategic value dwindled three years ago, when Japan blockaded the mainland side of the settlement. British strategists last week concentrated on Singapore, 1,454 miles to the south, kissed off Hong Kong with fervent compliments to the heroic defenders. Continued defense of the island had one great boon: a diversion of Japanese strength, however small...