Word: heroical
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...Commonwealth. Here, too, by our sides sit Adamses, Quincys, Cushings, Paines, Wards, Warrens, Emersons, and Pickerings, recalling the qualities, and even the features of our heroes, of the Revolutionary period. So may our descendants shout in this very hall, when 50 years, hence, the President shall recall heroic names of our day, and shall exhort another generation to be worthy of their father's fame...
...head. It gives one quite a start to look up and see the gray, mossy slope of the roof adorned by one human head, red faced, fat cheeked, with huge spectacles on and with an umbrella raised to protect it from the hot August sun. Whether the heroic watcher was standing on a stringer or whether kind hands supported him beneath, or whether he was prosaically seated on a tub, could be the subject only of the forlornest conjecture. The head alone was visible; and the head told no tales...
...presenting programmes made up as was the one given in Sanders Theatre last evening. While the aim of the symphony concerts is to give the best music, there are few minds, even in Cambridge, capable of thoroughly appreciating three such works as Schubert's Unfinished and Beethoven's Heroic Symphonies, and St. Saen's concerto, when heard one directly after the other. Whatever reasons might be urged in defence of this course in Boston, where the concerts may be considered as an educational series, are futile here. Where they are so few and have such a long interval between them...
...movements. In the Eroica the scherzo certainly affords needed relaxation, after the gloom of the funeral march, yet one would wish that the descent were not quite so rapid, and surely the title of scherzo is decidedly out of place in such a connection. The last movement sustains the heroic character, though in a somewhat lighter strain, and forms a fitting conclusion...
...dumb sense of the hideousness of wrong and of the sanctity of suffering: we feel the weight of the mysteries of this life, and we are made ready for high thoughts. For the office of the Gothic drama is not to give us merely the chiseled image of some heroic man agitated by one mighty passion, but rather to display the forces that are struggling in all men; to overawe us with the ghost of our own past and our own future, so that we may truly say: The world is passing in review...