Word: heroicizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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James Dance's "Cricket, An Heroic Poem" is more light hearted verse. This English fascination with the sport foreshadows America's own fixation with baseball: "They pleasures, cricket! All his heart control; They eager transports dwell upon his soul." After denouncing billiards, and cricket's sister sport tennis, Dance elevates cricket to a heroic level, emblemtic of London's proud, patriotic demeanor...
...Pope, will survive with or without his attentions. The editor's real concern lies with "some of the totally forgotten men and women whose literary bones I disturbed after they had slumbered peacefully for some two hundred years..." In a sense, Lonsdale has no business indulging in such heroic exhuming. Although the minor poems he has uncovered are valuable for historical documentation, they cannot hope to impress in the manner of Pope's heroic couplets or Johnson's manly verse. Yet literature never adapts itself to such hierarchical thinking, and one of the virtues of Lonsdale's book is that...
...Week or a late show. Once in a while, though, a film will buck the glut of exploitation movies and attract any viewer who still carries a hankie. Critic Raymond Durgnat called them "male weepies": films to make a grown man, or a baby mogul, cry. They describe a heroic life struggle that may end in defeat or death but never in ignominy. There is nothing like a fighter against the odds--a caring father (Kramer vs. Kramer), a troubled teenager (Ordinary People), a young cancer victim (Terms of Endearment) or a misunderstood songwriter (Amadeus)--to exalt ! and liquefy...
...theater so fascinated with failure? Could it be the sense of inferiority the American stage occasionally displays towards the European? The jealousy of the theater towards the mega-successful cinema? An expression of the neurotic personalities typical of live performers? Perhaps the theater cannot represent the heroic or estimable man without having him bursting into song or a nice two-step. Bobby, raised on the Rifleman and Gunsmoke, discovers that the last of the working class heroes is dead; not only have cowboys disappeared, but their ideals are bankrupt in the urban jungle. The modern hero, such...
...site last fall (at a cost of $400,000). It does not spoil the memorial, as the art mandarins had warned. The three U.S. soldiers, cast in bronze, stand a bit larger than life, carry automatic weapons and wear fatigues, but the pose is not John Wayne-heroic: these American boys are spectral and wary, even slightly bewildered as they gaze southeast toward the wall. While he was planning the figures, Sculptor Frederick Hart spent time watching vets at the memorial. Hart now grants that "no modernist monument of its kind has been as succcessful as that wall. The sculpture...