Word: heroicize
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...unfulfilled expectations—a dark and nervous piece of music haunted by lyrical dreams of tenderness. Like Beethoven’s third symphony, the “Tragic Overture” opens with two solitary chords. Unlike Beethoven, however, whose opening to his third symphony is bold and heroic, Brahms’ second chord is built unsteadily on a note one step above the tonic and is missing the third entirely. This foreshadows the unmistakable loneliness and emotional dissonance that runs through the entire piece...
...clearest lesson from Katrina is that plans are not enough. They must be put into practice. Preparation matters. Even in the chaos of 1918, people who knew what to expect and had been trained did their duty, often in heroic fashion. San Francisco was the only major city in which the local leadership told the truth about the disease. It organized emergency hospitals, volunteer ambulance drivers, soup kitchens and the like in advance. There, although fear certainly showed itself, it did not paralyze. If we prepare well enough, we won't need heroes; we'll just need people doing their...
...class and consumerism. In his wicked portrait of a couple seated in a restaurant, the romance of married life seems to belong in the barely remembered past. The book nonetheless reinforces certain clichés about the profession. Golden must know that war photographers aren't all selflessly heroic, and he fails to mention the crushing might of the industry's superpowers, Getty Images and Corbis, which have gobbled up independent agencies and driven down the price that unaffiliated news photographers can earn for their work. It is television that generally dictates what becomes a memorable image these days...
...least you can do is supply people with the means of escape and survival. Thats what our courageous first responders did for countless New Yorkers on September 11, and what so many ordinary people have done throughout the floods. We may never know how many were saved by their heroic spirit of mutual...
...psychological pain. Vitriolic disputes have broken out between survivors and the families of those who died, with allegations of cowardice sprayed on walls and lives ruined by whispering campaigns. Lidia Tsaliyeva, the school's 73-year-old principal, has been a main target. Fellow hostages say she played a heroic role during the ordeal, but others have made her into an accomplice of the terrorists; graffiti scrawled on a wall in the village calls her a "murderer...