Word: heroicizes
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...only is e-mail itself unlovely and somewhat ignoble, its advent tolls the loss of infinite opportunities for heroic deeds. "Don't kill the messenger," goes the saying, but today such advice is unnecessary because, for the most part, there are no messengers. If the Greeks had e-mail, Boston would not have its marathon. Likewise, the strong-souled stoicism of our present day couriers, who "come rain or snow or sleet or hail," is becoming obsolete, only to be replaced with a decidedly unheroic form of communication. The midnight e-mail of Paul Revere is not the stuff...
...most Lebanese considered it nothing more than the fanatical stalking horse of revolutionary Iran. Having since sacrificed 1,375 "martyrs" in the fight against Israel's 22-year-old occupation of southern Lebanon, Hizballah has seen its profile in Lebanon, even among many Christians, transformed into that of a heroic resistance army...
...kind of honor that, in Wolfe's example, gave James Stockdale (the admiral who was humiliated as Ross Perot's '92 running-mate) the strength to persevere through eight years of Vietnamese torture, including four years of solitary confinement. The warrior mentality grew into the manliness that is both heroic and foolish...
Putin chose his direction in life, she says, when studying the heroic days of the Leningrad siege. "Intelligence officers were really glorified," says Stelmakova, "in movies, literature, propaganda." Putin fell for the "romance of intelligence service." Putin says he was so keen to join up that he actually went one day--at age 15--to the local KGB headquarters to volunteer. There, a benevolent spook explained that "we don't take people who come to us on their own initiative." His advice: Go to law school...
Pforzheimer House won the heroic dining hall battle against Adams. But the bragging rights don't stop there--PfoHo now has a band named after...