Word: heroicize
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...born John Carter, on Oct. 24, 1924, in Evanston, Ill. (He would take his stage name from his mother's maiden name and his stepfather's surname.) At his hometown college, Northwestern, he played in student films as Peer Gynt and Marc Antony; already he was set in the heroic mold. In 1944 he married Lydia, also a Northwestern student, and joined the Army Air Force, serving two years as a radio operator. On Broadway in 1947, he played in Antony and Cleopatra with Katharine Cornell (who, the year before, had done Candida with the young Marlon Brando...
...group wouldn't? At these appearances he showed a thespic vitality absent from his diminishing turns before the movie and TV cameras. The actor's stentorian talents may have been looking for the kind of forum they had lately been denied in films. If screenwriters would no longer write heroic lines for his movie characters, he'd do it himself...
...Were this sentimentalism not so pathetic, so crude, there would almost be something poetic, something tragically heroic in it. Almost...
...country, notably in Afghanistan. The government is even considering resurrecting the Iron Cross medal as a symbol of valor. At the same time, many Germans still feel a deep ambivalence about the German military. "The film," says Castan, "provides a fundamentally German perspective on World War I, with certain heroic elements. But [the Red Baron] is an ambiguous hero, who at the end sees war in a negative light. It shows how we look at war today. The tragic thing about Von Richthofen is that he was the poster hero of the Kaiserreich [the German empire] who, deep down, knows...
...Though some of the British volunteers had had military or police training, most were mild-mannered office workers from British diplomatic facilities in the United States. When disaster strikes, their task is more consular than heroic - they identify British citizens who are dead, missing or injured, while helping to assist victims and their families...