Word: heroicize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York Times push the same line. But in fact this is not new and uncharted territory. Shockley's belief that blackness generally means stupidity has been around for a long time, and a glance at today's United States would show that it represents not a heroic challenge to established orthodoxy, but a belated attempt at justification for the discriminatory ways the orthodox have followed all along...
...Lampoon disgraced itself and the community by bringing to Harvard, and to little-needed national attention, John Wayne, a man who distinguished himself by portraying the extermination of the native inhabitants of this continent as a series of heroic acts. He then used his reputation as vigorously as he could to advance the prosecution of a war which Americans now see as anything from the most monstrous, costly error in our history to a deliberate genocidal campaign. To those who found this amusing, I must say I missed the funny part; to those who think Harvard gained any points against...
...disease momentarily weakens. He begins to think it might be nice to be a rhinoceros. It seems the thing to do. Stanley begins snorting, in a desperate attempt to turn into a beast. But he can not change, so his final assertion of individuality has both a heroic and a sour-grapes kind of defiance about...
...York Times had reported that the January 28 letter said. "The United States remains fully determined to provide maximum possible assistance to your heroic self-defense and will continue to stand side by side with the republic in the future as in the past...
Bruck's Stone emerges a hero, but not the idol of any one party. Heroic for his honesty, independence, and moral strength, he is cheered by demonstrators, applauded at an academic convocation. The film seems to show that however people interpret Stone's political goals, he is finally respected universally for his drive and integrity. It is impossible to deny the justice of the portrait; Stone is a militantly honest...