Word: heroicizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Betsy will probably be rock-bottom for Laurence Olivier; let us hope in the future that he accepts projects that will not mock the accomplishments of a heroic career. Maybe a legion of his fans could from a club to intercept and screen all scripts before they reach him, discarding Harold Robbins and Ira Levin in the process. But then again, in accepting the role of Loren Hardeman, Olivier accepted the challenge of a role unlike any he had done before. At age 70, Laurence Olivier still has enough daring to teach us all a lesson...
...Birmingham, of Selma and Chicago are all re-enacted with corrosive force. So, too, are the many efforts to block King's progress, whether by thugs or Southern sheriffs or J. Edgar Hoover. Against this tumultuous background, King's courageous devotion to nonviolent activism assumes appropriately heroic proportions...
...multivolume history, The Age of Roosevelt, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote of those radicals who compared the New Deal to aspirin and Bolshevism to heroic surgery. He underscored this passion to cut with three lines of Depression verse: " We care not if Thy flag be white or red/ Come, ruthless Savior, messenger of God,/ Lenin or Christ, we follow Thy bright sword...
...discovery," is not the lovely golden-haired heroine of our imaginations, resembling, in fact, a rather ungainly giraffe. She does, however, have an innocence and sensitivity which are beautiful in themselves, and she is radiant in her final speeches and in the ascent to her death, all the more heroic for an occasional, involuntary tremble...
There are many reasons for the absence of the heroic impulse among all these actors, and in fairness it must be said that the fault does not lie entirely in the stars. Everyone knows this is not a particularly heroic historical moment. It is difficult to find many real-life heroes to identify with, and this thins the soil out of which larger-than-life movie figures can be expected to grow. Beyond that, not nearly so many movies are being made nowadays, so there are fewer opportunities for the kind of relentless exposure that built the great star careers...