Word: heroicizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sculpture or a gigantic joke-Pet Rocks on a heroic scale? Folks in Hartford, Conn., have been debating that since just before Labor Day, when several trucks and a large crane deposited 36 boulders, some weighing 19,000 Ibs., in a rough triangular pattern around a downtown park. The arrangement is the creation of Minimalist Sculptor Carl Andre, who was commissioned at a cost of $87,000 by a local foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. But Hartford citizens could not be more angry if they had paid for it themselves. Snapped Mayor George Athanson: "You call that...
...spirit, Outlaw Blues is like a lot of country music. It is a mock-heroic ballad, loose and unpretentious in form, good-natured, yet somehow not quite so memorable as it might have been...
...Kennedy really wants to have a go at is salvaging Uncle John's World War II patrol boat, PT109. The boat is thought to lie in 1,400 ft. of water off the Solomon Islands, where it was sunk by a Japanese destroyer in 1943. J.F.K.'s heroic part in the survival of his crew became a legend that contributed notably to his political career. When young Michael learned of an Australian effort to find and hoist up the remains of PT109, he set off to meet with the adventurers. His special dream: to see artifacts-or maybe...
...Henry James and Edith Wharton are prominent exceptions, though these writers spent most of their lives abroad While the public enjoys upstairs-downstairs capers, most critics view money and manners as intellectually déclassé. Members of the top crust do not match the nation's heroic ideal: the rebellious romantic who spurns corrupting society to hunt his singular salvation in wild nature...
Part of the problem may stem from choosing to confine the movie to World War II and after. While it is clear that it was young Douglas' relationship with his heroic father that shaped his personality, the movie only hints at some of its complexities. Nor does it probe his near mystical feelings for West Point, which obviously provided something that had been missing in his nature until he stepped onto the Plain there. However exaggerated his talk of "The Corps, The Corps, The Corps," of the grandeur he found in the military tradition, there was an authenticity...