Word: heroicizes
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DIED. RICHARD CASSILLY, 70, American tenor and operatic star of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s; of a cerebral hemorrhage. A pure heldentenor, Cassilly possessed a booming, heroic voice that ideally suited grand Wagnerian roles. Debuting at New York City's Metropolitan Opera in 1970, he sang in more than 100 performances there...
...full 60 minutes will be the key for Harvard. It still has yet to produce such an effort. Even in the magnificent Beanpot win, a decided lack of intensity in the first period and opening of the second allowed BC to build its 3-0 lead and necessitated a heroic comeback...
...with the future, it may be because, when he becomes one of the youngest ex-Presidents, he can expect so much more. In off-the-cuff remarks at a late-night Houston fund raiser earlier this month, Clinton suddenly broke into a disquisition on the movie Amistad and the heroic role that John Quincy Adams played as an ex-President. One line about Adams seemed to have struck home with the current Chief Executive: "Is there anything as pathetic as an ex-President?" Clinton told the crowd, "I'll try to beat the odds...
...already so sensitive to the question and what it implies, aides say, that the mere sight of the word legacy in print is enough to trigger an eruption of the famous Clinton temper. He knows well that, as historian Michael Beschloss notes, "most Presidents are really not in the heroic mode." To be one of the greats requires surmounting a crisis on the scale of the Civil War or the Great Depression, or having ideas strong enough to change the way an entire nation thinks...
DIED. TOSHIRO MIFUNE, 77, rugged actor in epic Japanese films; in Mitaka, Japan. In his 16-film collaboration with director Akira Kurosawa, Mifune came to embody the heroic, archetypical loner with his rough features and angry intensity. America had cowboys; Japan had Mifune, wielding a sword and his trademark glare in the Oscar-winning Rashomon, The Seven Samurai and Yojimbo. Although Mifune often played the Pacific enemy in American films like Midway (1976), his menace needed no translation. It was his Japanese films that stuck with audiences, inspiring such imitators as Clint Eastwood and even Jim Belushi...