Word: heroicize
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...absoluteness by painting abstractly. However cloudy Malevich's voluble theories are, his Suprematist paintings are as decisive as razors: those forceful, exquisite arrangements of planes, asserting their aesthetic self- sufficiency on a white ground (which was also the celestial white background of Moscow icons) have an almost heroic daring, which he would push still further in the plain black crosses and black squares...
...lacks the heroic mien -- steel forged in Camelot -- of central casting's great military strategists: Wellington, MacArthur, Cordesman. His stare, which can be ferocious, is undercut by a fretful brow; the small, almost gentle features are stranded in his moon of a face. And no fellow shaped like a nose tackle is going to cut a chic figure in those desert jammies. You look for John Wayne, and you find Jonathan Winters crossed with Willard Scott: a lunch- pail lug who should be shambling into the Cheers bar to a chorus of "Norm!" Norm? Is that any name...
...will last for generations" (1980). "The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and all of Palestine--from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea and from Rosh Hanikra to Eilat" (1980). "The war of attrition against the Zionist enemy will never cease" (1983). "O heroic sons of Gaza Strip, O proud sons of the [West] Bank, O heroic sons of the Galilee, O steadfast sons of the Negev:...the fires of revolution against these Zionist invaders will not fade out...until our land--all our land--has been liberated from these usurping invaders...
Many Arabs and, more generally, many Muslims identify with Saddam Hussein precisely because he is losing on what they see as a heroic, even mythic scale. For them, his plight is a symbol of their own victimization by the rich and powerful nations of the world. No matter how and when the war ends, Islamic rage already threatens the stability of traditionally pro-Western regimes from Morocco to Jordan to Pakistan. Blunting that trend is more important than seeing Saddam get what he deserves...
Perhaps Mr. Katz believes that if the war is immoral and "so many lives are at stake," it would be an appropriately "heroic" act for U.S. soldiers to mutiny at the front. Perhaps this is correct. But can we set this as our minimum standard of resistance, even if it is within the power of every soldier to resist in this...