Word: heroical
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Failing such heroic methods, a renaissance in the vigorous vocal disapproval of the Elizabethans would be balm to the shattered soul of the man, dropped between the two halves of Mae West's latest, and condemned to the tortures of a stage show. The rise of the word genteel, and of all that it connotes, during the last century, has effectually outlawed such virile practice as booing, hissing, the throwing of fruit--with the exception of communities on the farthest frontier and of political meetings...
...monster's homicidal mania leaps up at the time of the full moon. Working in the dark, he takes off his glasses, puts on gloves, chokes the victim to death, cuts her up with artistic pride, removes her eyes. He is exposed at last by an heroic and implausibly clever woman who turns an electric torch into his unprotected eyes while he is preparing for his favorite pastime...
Conductor Barbirolli earned better marks, and easily passed his New York entrance examination with a suave Mozart symphony and a heroic Brahms Fourth, wherein New York Times Critic Olin Downes discovered "virility, grip, lyrical opulence, and on occasion the impact of the bear's paw." Said the New York Herald Tribune's, Lawrence Oilman: "He has disclosed himself as a musician of taste and fire and intensity, electric, vital, sensitive, dynamic, experienced; as an artist who knows his way among the scores he elects to set before us, who has mastered not only his temperament but his trade...
There is something deliciously subtle and sharp in the French sense of humor, especially when it deals with the relationships between la femme et I'homme. And this is what "Carnival In Flanders" (time, 1618) is about: the "heroic" resistance the women in a Flemish town put up against the Spanish Duke come to sack the village--by pretending that the pompous, ineffectual mayor is dead and going therefore into mourning! The picture is replete with hilarious situation, good lines (there are English titles), and piercing caricatures. Alerme as the Burgomaster, Francoise Rosay as his wife, significantly listed...
...Night, it is compact and tightly-woven. the action taking place in 24 hours and the large cast of characters representing the main types of French provincial society at a moment of great tension. Conceived in the grand manner of pre-War fiction, with a gigantic mock-heroic central character and a host of petty Flaubertian supernumeraries, it is nevertheless modern in spirit, presents a picture of social anarchy that few readers are likely to forget...