Word: heroicizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...breed of wild Eastern suspense books. Plots and characters of a dozen or more titles all derive from the same headlines - during the fall of 1972 - when Black September terrorists murdered 1 1 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics. Villainous Palestinians, flinty Israeli secret police and slightly less heroic American and English spooks never seem to lack technical expertise, first-class plane fare or a large supply of plastic explosives and Kalashnikovs (the Russian submachine guns favored by thriller writers...
...Pits reopened the painful subject of French behavior during the German occupation. The national collapse of 1940 represented to most Frenchmen a devastating indictment of their government and society. Consequently, in the process of national reconstruction after the war, nationalist politicians sought to project an image of a heroic France united behind de Gaulle and the Resistance Ophuls attempted to show that this image was a self-serving myth, since the Resistance never comprised more than a tiny fraction of the population, which for the most part collaborated actively or passively with the Vichy government and the Germans. Ophuls...
...supreme holiday of international Communism, yet not a word was uttered to congratulate the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong on their overwhelming victory. Among the placards carried by 100,000 Russian workers on their May 1 march, only one referred -obliquely-to the event: "Fraternal greetings to the heroic Vietnamese people," it read. The Communist Party daily Pravda was a nonchalant 36 hours late in reporting the news of Saigon's surrender. North Vietnamese diplomats assigned to Hanoi's embassy in Moscow had to seek out Western correspondents for details of their nation's triumph...
...resignation as voluntary, it was virtually his only choice, even without the push from Washington. In the days leading up to his announcement, Communist troops had made a mockery of any claim that Saigon could yet mobilize a vigorous defense. The badly battered ARVN 18th Division put up a heroic stand at the provincial capital of Xuan Loc, 40 miles northeast of Saigon, but a formidable force of three North Vietnamese divisions, after taking some severe casualties from government air strikes, simply wore them down. When the exhausted remnants of Xuan Loc's defenders straggled into Saigon early last week...
...hard-working colonial farmers who left their small plots to fight for independence from the British. As April turns into May and June and the hot days of summer, the executive caravan will follow its pompish route through the cities and towns of the Eastern Seaboard, invoking the heroic patriotism and noble sacrifice of Bunker Hill. Dorchester Heights, Long Island and other sites where red-coats and colonists clashed...