Word: heroicizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Heroic Firemen. The Statler Hilton Hotel passed out sheets and towels and crammed four people into some rooms. "Even the lobby was wall-to-wall people," said one employee. The 500 patients at the Edward J. Meyer Memorial Hospital crowded a little closer so that some 2,000 unexpected visitors could find places to sleep. Near the city zoo, residents saw a strange sight befitting the arctic scene: reindeer roaming in their backyards. The herd had escaped from the zoo by simply walking across a snow-packed moat...
...tests of will--the factory work, or her struggle to continue writing despite almost paralyzing headaches--did not represent for Simone a way of feeling heroic or omnipotent, but rather of reminding herself constantly that she had limits and, as she once wrote in a note to herself, that she wasn't God. Thus the final turn toward mysticism suggest a spiritual reconciliation with this challenging awareness of limits...
...explanations which Wilson's Sociobiology provides for racism, fascism, and war are unscientific at best and dangerous at worst. The inhuman acts carried out by racists in Germany, South Africa, and the U.S. have been answered by heroic anti-racist and anti-fascist resistance. Where there were Nazis, there were partisans; where there is apartheid, there is massive rebellion, where there has been the Klan, ROAR, and the war in Indochina there has been the civil rights movement, CAR, and the anti-war movement...
...sure, Kunta Kinte is seen as a figure of unbending pride and courage, and morally it is fine to present an outsize, heroic character with whom black youths can identify. On the other hand, black males wearing their machismo on their sleeves-as many do in current films and TV shows-are really just variants on the old buck characters of early movies and even earlier plays...
...Frenzy. Movies make us expect that in such situations of heavy stress, heroes emerge. Trumbo, and other members of the ten, had the same kind of fantasies. When their moment came, however, reality interfered. The ten all grandstanded, and today, looking at the old newsreel footage, they seem not heroic but very human and slightly absurd. A short fund-raising film for the Hollywood Ten, unearthed by Director Helpern, shows the group addressing the camera with starchy informality and faint condescension. But this impression of haughtiness compares favorably with the shrill, uproarious melodramatics of The Red Menace, an anti-Communist...