Word: heroicizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cook himself, who would not vouch for the accuracy of his instrument readings beyond a "reasonable certainty." It is also reasonably certain that Peary's friends, who included newspaper executives, took special care and relish in destroying Cook. For all his shadiness, he still cuts a heroic figure. Unfortunately, the fullness of his personality is flattened by Eames' frequently naive attempts to prove what remains unprovable...
MOVIES ABOUT country boys who come to the city to make it big used to be made about tycoons and entrepreneurs. The rise of rock as the most dynamic mass art form has passed the heroic mantle from businessmen and badmen to rock stars. And rock has accentuated a theme which has always been implicit in the hero as desperado: a morbid fascination with living life as quickly as possible, with life only in the present, and pain collapsed into conclusive drama...
...Braque. Working in stone and bronze, Lipchitz simplified human figures into multiplaned, crystal-like abstractions. During the '20s, he began to reverse the process and "from a crystal build a man, a woman, a child." His ideal became Rodin rather than Picasso, his work more monumental, his themes heroic. During World War II, Lipchitz fled France for the U.S. and for the next 30 years concentrated on giant allegorical figures from Greek mythology and the Old Testament. Lipchitz was buried in Jerusalem where 300 of his sculptures have been bequeathed to the Museum...
...Revolution, the forced-labor corvees which are then resumed, and a subsequent revolt. She joins other fugitives slaves almost by accident; Solitude becomes a figure of legend only in their final battle, fighting against French armies who hope to re-establish slave trade. Violent revolt is the final, inevitable, heroic support of the meager life she is left with...
...clarinetist, separated husband and blocked novelist of the 1960s who floats on nostalgia rather than tradition. Blake is a character in Benson's novel-in-progress. Both are characters in Irvin Faust's fourth novel, Foreign Devils, a typically Faustian fiction that generates considerable warmth by rubbing heroic fantasies against drab realities...