Word: heroical
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...despoiled Greenwich Village, including one of the most touted figures in contemporary painting- Yasuo Kuniyoshi (TIME, April 7). And Brooklyn has an art museum which is by no means en echo of Manhattan's giant Metropolitan, but an important, lively institution in its own right. Last week several heroic pieces of statuary were set up on the tecrace before this immense Roman pile, designed by McKim, Mead & White. Heralds were they of a great exhibition of sculpture by U. S. citizens and foreigners working in the U. S. which was opened in, and served to inaugurate, the museum...
...skillfully woven around the lives and characters of certain British officers in a front line sector-their amusements, memories, meals, relations to each other-all unified by the abstract presence of a power bent on destroying them, and which does in the end destroy them. These soldiers are heroic, but with a kind of heroism never before depicted on the screen-a makeshift heroism, concocted in despair as the best way to behave in circumstances which are absurd, insane, horrible. Captain Stanhope is played by Colin Clive, who has the part in the stage Journey's End in London...
...skillfully woven around the lives and characters of certain British officers in a front line sector?their amusements, memories, meals, relations to each other?all unified by the abstract presence of a power bent on destroying them, and which does in the end destroy them. These soldiers are heroic, but with a kind of heroism never before depicted on the screen?a makeshift heroism, concocted in despair as the best way to behave in circumstances which are absurd, insane, horrible. Captain Stanhope is played by Colin Clive, who has the part in the stage Journey's End in London...
Many an American has died in heroic circumstances, but until lately it has not appeared that any North American has performed saintworthy miracles.* (No one who has not performed at least two miracles, and in addition died an heroic death, is canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church.) In Vatican City last week, however, the Congregation of Sacred Rites passed by a comfortable majority the credentials of eight New York and Canadian martyrs (six Jesuits, two laymen), and the Holy Office prepared to canonize them as saints. The group was credited with two miracles, and each with an heroic...
...said "even went so far-a savage act-as in cold blood [to] wound us with their nails, which are extremely sharp, in the most tender and sensitive parts of the body." Eventually all eight were despatched by the Indians, several with tomahawks. There is no question of the heroic circumstances of their deaths. But many an American has been tomahawked. What miracles did the eight perform...