Word: heroicizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ranked with the leading young British classical actors, Alan Howard plays the title role with hurricane force. While his vocal range is narrow, his delivery of the lines is imperious in tone and cloudless in clarity. Heroic in bearing, he also conveys a sensual relish in the blood sport of war. Best of all, he tempers Coriolanus' abrasive arrogance by showing the soldier's moral consistency. After his mother has urged him to placate the plebs, he counters...
...them, chosen in advance, killed his mates one by one. Finally, with the Romans approaching, this last man completed his task by driving a dagger into his chest. Masada had fallen after a three-year stand, but the symbolic act of defiance remains even now as heroic. Faced with the choice of life under a hated regime or death as free men, the defenders of Masada decided that death was better...
...Tunney, the perfectly controlled ring tactician; Bobby Hull, hockey's most explosive scorer; Bobby Orr, the greatest defenseman, graceful and creative, in hockey history. Tunney died last week at 81, and Orr retired at 30, just seven days after Hull quit at 39. They were three of sport's heroic figures. Consummate athletes, they came to be respected as much for their character as for their skills...
Champi was, on the eve of his heroic performance, a back-up quarterback struggling to maintain his second-string status. He had not played in a crucial situation all season...
...years, from about 800 B.C. until the 1st century B.C. Who were these roistering, rambunctious warrior-poets, these so-called Celts? Contemporary Greek and Roman writers disdained them as crude barbarians, and the early Celts did little to correct the slander. Preferring to pass on their exploits in heroic song and verse, they left no written history or literature and, alas, many questions about their culture. But more and more Celtic remains are being uncovered across Europe, the latest one a remarkable burial site discovered this summer near the West German city of Stuttgart. From these finds the extraordinary breadth...