Word: heroicizing
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...fight with a friend (or now enemy) over a “Crimson Crazies” t-shirt, or the thrill of watching the team run onto the field, the Harvard nighttime football game against Holy Cross encapsulated the school spirit Harvard often lacks. Even without the heroic comeback—the two touchdown dives that ignited fans—Harvard was a winner on Friday night because of the way the game rallied the campus community. But rather than sitting back and feeling proud about a fun evening and a Crimson victory, the College should instead take stock...
...chronology, highlighting their dysfunctional relationships with their military husbands and frustrations with their respective “small islands.” And while Levy communicates her imperial frustrations clearly, she does not do so by painting a superficial portrait of either side. Although Jamaican soldiers emerge as the heroic but disenfranchised patriots, Levy also highlights the ambiguous and terrifying experiences of white British veterans of the World Wars. While the geography of the novel is sweeping (the story takes place in Jamaica, the U.S., England, and India), its characters and storylines are pleasantly connected and often hilarious.And...
...Onstage at the Republican Convention Wednesday night, Huckabee expressed nothing but praise for McCain, noting his heroic story as a prisoner of war and Barack Obama's "excellent adventure to Europe." Huckabee wrote the speech himself, going through 17 or 18 drafts that saw its length cut nearly in half. In the end, he cut out sections about health care, terrorism and his experience traveling to Rwanda with Cindy McCain...
...Obama's historic achievement before filleting him for his "ideas from Europe" and his willingness to "give madmen the benefit of the doubt." Rudy Giuliani, the veteran New York prosecutor doing part jury summation, part stand-up, swept swing voters into his arms and danced. He told McCain's heroic story yet again, but this time it was to set up a relentless contrast to the Ivy League guy who rose through Chicago-machine politics to reach the state legislature and vote "present" 130 times because "deciding 'yes' or 'no' was too tough" on his way to becoming a "celebrity...
...issue isn't the McCain campaign's use of biography per se, but rather how and when they bring it up. By turning to his POW experience in order to deflect any question, be it about his character, wealth or memory, McCain appears to risk trivializing his own heroic personal story in much the same way that Rudy Giuliani's constant invoking of 9/11 became the butt of jokes during his presidential campaign...