Word: heroicizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...become a profoundly perplexing question for doctors and, indeed, all of society: Should heroic measures-respirators and other marvels of modern medical technology-be used to prolong the lives of the dying who no longer want to live? Last week California gave its answer. It became the first state to legalize the right of the terminally ill to decree their own deaths...
...imagine that because a man has lived a highly dramatic life, the intrinsic excitement of that life can be transferred automatically to the stage. The fallacy is compounded if the man involved has exercised a visible impact on the history of his times. Supposedly, this ought to confer heroic stature on him. It rarely works that way, and I Have a Dream, a documentary series of vignettes based on the life and words of Martin Luther King fails because the drama has internal laws that transcend the most memorable of headlines...
...spectacle no to virtuosity no to transformations and magic and make-believe no to the glamour and transcendency of the star image no to the heroic no to the anti-heroic no to trash imagery no to involvement of performer or spectator no to style no to camp no to seduction of spectator by the wiles of the performer no to eccentricity no to moving or being moved...
...tunic. His face looked old, but also unwrinkled and at rest. Unlike at Chou En-lai's funeral last January, when only an urn containing the late Premier's ashes was displayed, the Chairman's body has been brought before the Chinese people for a final heroic display. Many believed that, like Lenin, Mao would be embalmed and enshrined in a special mausoleum. As they would before an emperor of old -or a father-the Chinese wept and bowed before Chairman Mao in reverence, showing a shattering sense of loss...
...adopted what he liked and what was useful to him and tried to reject what he did not like or was not useful. His view of himself and the world has been shaped in large part by a distrust of big money, power and government, the dedication to the heroic mythology of the Confederacy and its gentle traditions that were so often belied by violent reality, the fundamentalist religion, the romantic belief in the redeeming qualities of rural life, and the sense of the region's old isolation, poverty, backwardness and-above all-its preoccupation with race. He also...