Word: heroicize
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...Israeli literature, the characters are always heroic and sure and responsible and moral—they are always better than me,” Keret said. But in his stories, there is ambiguity and uncertainty. Especially when it comes to love...
...goal, Arroyo says, is to be a "good" President, not a great one?a sobering thought in a time when author Wilson Lee Flores says "a country in serious economic, political, and moral crisis needs great and heroic leadership." She should take risks, he says, be a Musharraf or a "Deng Xiaoping, like her physically short but a giant in terms of courage and guts." If she can generate a following for herself, the Philippines might yet learn what is really in her heart, as well as what's in her head. Otherwise, stability, and small steps...
Hockey is a beautiful game: it puts strength, finesse and teamwork into play on ice at 35 m.p.h. Parenthood is an honorable, often heroic estate: it sacrifices sleep and self for a child's greater good. But parents at a hockey game--that spectacle is not always either beautiful or honorable. This time it was deadly...
...take anything away from the heroic performance of Mayor Giuliani, but your choice of him was hypocritical and cowardly. Can any rational person think the effect that Osama bin Laden's heinous crimes had on the world was less important than the mayor's wonderful deeds? When Giuliani went to ground zero right after the attack, he showed something TIME's editors lacked: courage. EDWARD RADOSH Weston...
...courage, his instinct and intelligence to take on the responsibility for action in the face of this catastrophe. Rudy took charge. He led all the people of New York--the fire fighters, the police, the survivors and those who suffered the loss of loved ones. He was truly heroic. JEANNE HUM La Mirada, Calif...