Word: heroicize
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...fact, his true film siblings are the old adventure stars Douglas Fairbanks and William S. Hart. Like Fairbanks, Keaton performed gorgeous, reckless stunts; his films were thrillers culminating in wild cyclones (Steamboat Bill, Jr.) and boat disasters (The Navigator). Like Hart, Keaton was the American loner: a dour, improbably heroic figure beneath a hostile...
...gunpoint to smile; after considering whether he'd rather die, Keaton fingers the corners of his mouth into an awful grimace. But this blank visage was a versatile comic instrument. The giant eyes spoke all manner of emotions: ardor, terror, despair, sheer mulishness. The Keaton deadpan is stoic, heroic and as thoroughly modernist as a Beckett play or a Bauhaus facade. Next to him, Chaplin is a Victorian coquette, Lloyd a glad-handing politician...
...universities in the 1960's, protests may have raged outside the classroom, but inside the schoolhouses, students were at least able to obtain an education." We take Mr. Singer's criticism very earnestly because he offers constructive advice for how we might more closely follow the example of those heroic fighters for racial purity who protested integration outside their schools. We thank Mr. Singer for having enough faith in us to believe that we could, one day, live up to the time-honored standards of our white brethren fighting against racial contamination in the 1960s...
...suggest saying, "Ricky, instead of sex tonight, why don't you work on your stamp collection?" Heroic individual self-denial is not viable long-term adolescent policy. What might work, however, would be an entire context of abstinence, a culture of abstinence: what philosophy would call "enlightened abstinence, rightly understood...
Sophomore Toure McCluskey, whose seeing-eye pass led to Silva's heroic goal, and juniors John Vrionis and David Bonita should also see playing time up front...