Word: heroicize
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...Weber, who first developed the term, considered Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith and Martin Luther "charismatic," but would surely not have extended the honor to the Indigo Girls. For Weber, followers are drawn to a charismatic leader because of his extraordinary, almost god-like, personal qualities. By virtue of his heroic personality, the charismatic leader gives rules without regard to traditional authority ("It is written, but I say unto you") and commands total devotion from his disciples...
...Crimson lost the game in overtime, but Schwefel's heroic shot made the mighty Terriers sweat out sudden death...
...snack of choice, while his colleagues admitted to mainlining cupcakes and Three Musketeers bars. Gore, the Harvard-educated, alpha male in training, named Shakespeare in Love as his favorite movie, while Hatch chose Simon Birch, a peculiar film about a dwarf who believes God selected him for a heroic mission. In another life, Hatch says, he would like to be in the CIA. It may be just as well we lost...
...response to that stubborn sense of mystery, visitors have characteristically tried to fill the emptiness with explanations, speculating about immigrants from outer space or heroic oarsmen from South America; foreigners see Basque influences here; and locals speak of the statues walking inland from the coast. The monoliths, thought to be between 600 and 1,300 years old, reflect back mostly the faces of those who look at them. John Dos Passos, in 1971, saw the island's parabolic cycle--the construction of extraordinarily impressive monuments, followed by their destruction--as a warning to "college radicals"; others see an allegory...
...portrait you gave us of republican presidential candidate John McCain is of a man fully alive [CAMPAIGN 2000, Dec. 13]. His heroic military past is astonishing. McCain is at times a statesman and crusader and at others a family man, raconteur or stand-up comic. His mixture of humanity, honor and humor is unique to the present political scene. He wins you over with his personality and his message. OLIVER HARPER Phoenix, Ariz...