Word: heroicizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alfred Leslie, through June 27th. Leslie's monumental works are enthusiastically heroic, sweeping. Only too super-real...
Despite a heroic seven-run rally in the final two innings of the game, Harvard failed to overcome a debilitating lead that Northeastern quickly carved out of Crimson errors and some pitches that were served up on silver if not golden platters...
...TRUE fairy tale style, The Dragon relies on the dynamics of a few major characters against the background of simple but peace-loving folk. With a few exceptions, the members of the supporting cast play their unassuming roles well without detracting from the heroic figures of the leads...
...that Howard, a fine actor, is doing a bad job. He is simply responding to Director Terry Hands' imposed conception of the play. Hands clearly wants to get entirely away from any thing overtly heroic or proudly patriotic. Such an aim, however, is difficult to square with the text and tenor of the play. Once one accepts the limitations of the director's concept, there is nothing to fault in the brio of the cast, the racehorse pace or the sense of battle-weary valor conveyed. There are different ways of showing British pluck. Dunkirk is not Agincourt...
...East, and were sold out by English duplicity and Islamic squabbling after 1918. He has been dead 40 years. In the meantime, there have been as many Lawrences as writers: the adulated hero (Robert Graves), the narcissistic moral cynic (Richard Aldington), the Hamlet, the Lord Jim of Araby, the heroic closet queen, and so on down to the sexy, prancing psychotic portrayed by Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia. In A Prince of Our Disorder, Harvard Psychiatry Professor John Mack has absorbed them all. His prose has the texture of gray felt, but it takes us closer...