Word: heroicizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CHINA'S GREAT PROLETARIAN Cultural Revolution may never be fully explained to the outsider. An aura of mystery always remains, the legacy of the Western press's hazy early reports of the armies of the Red Guard marching back and forth across the nation, and Chairman Mao's heroic swim down the Yangtze--events without explanation, a massive eruption without obvious cause. In The Wind Will Not Subside, David and Nancy Dall Milton have made an effort to chronicle the course of the movement, from the first breath of internal debate through to the final turn to a new kind...
...Heroic Effort. Instead, the doctors could wage a heroic effort to save him. From the start, Chief Surgeon Joseph Wilder's special team-nine surgeons, three anesthetists and six nurses-realized that the abdominal wound was the worst; the removal of another bullet lodged in Rojas's temple could wait. Deftly cutting away, Surgeon Mulji Pauwaa removed the ruptured spleen. Then, after locating the bullet-which somehow had twisted around-he removed it, thereby restoring the leg's blood supply. Meanwhile, other members of the team sopped up the blood that had accumulated in the chest cavity...
...could and did. Likewise, we suppose that the "advanced" movements in Spanish art during the past 40 years must have threatened Franco's commissars. But a historical show entitled "Spain, Artistic Avant-Garde and Social Reality 1936-76," suggests that it was otherwise, that after the moment of heroic protest symbolized by Picasso's Guernica, the regime itself started to exploit, for its own benefit, the success of the Spanish avantgarde...
Where are the men of heroic proportions, soul-stirring, uniquely gifted, magnetic in inspiration, who can truly personify the leadership necessary to keep the U.S strong and worthy of world esteem...
Such was the heroic acting style of Laurence Olivier in the film of Henry V that it has somewhat distorted an entire generation's perception of the play...