Word: heroicize
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Today most heart disease is treated as though it were primarily a mechanical malfunction. Clogged arteries are either reopened with the equivalent of a plumber's snake or bypassed by vessels borrowed from other parts of the body. But while such heroic measures can relieve pain and reduce debilitating fatigue, they generally forestall death for only a few years...
Mandela's is "a classic, archetypally heroic story involving great suffering and great achievement," says Stengel. "It shows the value of sticking to one's beliefs." Stengel and the President embarked on 18 months of writing and editing in January 1993, starting with a manuscript Mandela had begun years earlier in his prison cell. They set to work each day at 6:45 a.m., usually meeting at Mandela's African National Congress office in downtown Johannesburg or his suburban home. On his own, Stengel tracked down and interviewed more than 50 of Mandela's friends, colleagues and family members, including...
This was more a bungled, shabby attempt than a cleverly diabolical ruse worthy of Harvard. A great deal of embellishment might make it a memorably heroic story for these folks' grandchildren, but we wouldn't count...
...power. After his people had trashed the White House, he retained three servants who had worked for his elitist predecessor -- a French chef, a steward and a butler -- and began serving the finest clarets at dinner. He also hired a painter, who promptly began immortalizing his subject in heroic oil portraits. The rest is history...
Even though F. Scott was Princeton's literary poster boy, he couldn't help marveling at "Yale's hard, neat, fascinating brightness." For him, Yale "evoked the memory of a heroic team backed up against its own impassable goal in the crisp November twilight, and later, of half a dozen immaculate noblemen with opera hats and canes standing at the Manhattan Hotel bar. And tangled up with its triumphs and rewards, its struggles and glories, the vision of the inevitable, incomparable girl...