Word: heroicize
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...President's heroes exude stereotypical appeal, but they are heroic precisely because they have surmounted obstacles which the Administration has willingly left in their paths. How many future science prodigies will the President stifle by eliminating the Health Professions Training Program and by reducing research grants and university funding...
...grieve over the destruction of a $1.2 billion tinkertoy, nor did it deign to inappropriately question the uncontested brilliance of the men and women of NASA. America found agony in the immolation of seven remarkable individuals. Who had families just like ours. And dreams every bit as heroic. And the fatal duty of playing pioneer to a frontier no more or less forgiving than the ones we face every day of our lives...
...shift from a traditional alliance with "oppressors" to greater concern for the poor. Says he: "There are 10,000 more coincidences between Christianity and Communism than there could be with capitalism." Liberation theology, he exults, is "a re-encounter of Christianity with its roots, with its most beautiful, heroic and most glorious history." He also calls it "one of the most fundamental happenings that have occurred in our epoch...
...stand by the other slogans. The heroic victory of Vietnamese workers and peasants was an important defeat for U.S. imperialism. And today, the U.S. bourgeoisie sees Central America as its starting point for a war ultimately aimed at destroying the Soviet Union. We in the SYL believe that he Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 is the single greatest victory of the international working class to date, and the greatest defeat for world imperialism. In spite of the parasitic Stalinist bureaucracy which has usurped political power from the proletariat, the central gains of a planned collectivized economy still remain...
...combat leads to catharsis. It also results in an apparent union, all but unprecedented for him, between two wholly sympathetic characters. And because Shepard has directed the play to be uproarious, it casts new light on all his work. In retrospect, his eerie lowlifes seem more farcical, less perversely heroic. His characters frequently lack a core of conviction. In this tale, some have so little sense of self that they cannot recall whether events happened to them or to someone they knew. Moreover, Shepard characters rarely speak lyrically; he keeps their language as mud-bound as their lives. Plummer...