Word: heroicize
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...though they reaped the benefits of Harvard’s 9-0 campaign as freshmen, few would have claimed to call that season their own. Only two, Ryan Fitzpatrick and Adam Jenkins, held slots on the travel squad, and—Fitzpatrick’s heroic comeback against Dartmouth aside—that was Neil Rose’s and Carl Morris’ team, not theirs...
...Everything we learned about science, we learned from the movies.” That’s what the folks down at the Center for Astrophysics claim. Begin your education at the Center’s monthly sci-fi screening. This month in Silent Running (1972), one heroic botanist and three robots take the mission to rescue earth’s vegetation into their own hands in the face of government inaction. Free. Doors open at 6:45 p.m. for the 7:15 p.m. screening at the Center for Astrophysics...
...from the once they encountered at Hue. Both are fiercely determined guerrilla fighters motivated by a combination of nationalism and ideology, capable of great cruelty and dug in so deep in the urban landscape that they had to be rooted out building by building. But while Hue was an heroic triumph, at the cost of some 580 fatalities for the Marines and other U.S. and South Vietnamese units who went in to recapture a city audaciously seized by insurgents, winning the battle did not help the American side win the war. And it's far from clear that victory...
...transformed sentiments may be better or worse than those of the individuals of which the crowd is composed…A crowd is as easily heroic as criminal...
Schilling, rising like a rebuilt pitching robot, walked to the Yankee Stadium mound for Game 6. He permitted just one run in seven innings, silencing New York studs like Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, Gary Sheffield and Hideki Matsui. It was a masterful job--and a heroic one, with TV cameras focused on the blood seeping through his sock. It was so gory, it might have been an episode of CSI: Curt Schilling's Incision. After the game, though, someone discarded Schilling's blood-red sock, potentially the most treasured relic since Veronica's veil. It could have netted a bundle...