Word: heroics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There's no longer a sense of the heroic," shesaid. Post-modernism "ignores the sensoryexperience...
...live on for generations, for he will always be part of his brilliant creation, Batman, a superhero of skill and courage who fearlessly battles evil in Gotham City. But in the real world, the greatest heroes are those who live good, decent, productive lives. My friend Bob was as heroic...
...readings by him to discussions about him. It was wonderful to hear him read aloud some of those poems I had only rehearsed in my head, but it was as wonderful to hear lines from his new translation of Beowulf. His wry running commentary--that the genre demanded the heroic "Charlton Heston or Clint Eastwood bit" or that he pictured the monster Grendel as a sort of "reeking dog-breath in the dark"--helped to underscore that Heaney was coming at the old staple of high school English classes from a refreshing new angle...
...pioneering journey came well before our time, we all know heroism transcends generations. How many of our kids, three decades from today, would flock to Busch Stadium to see Mac take a few (feeble) cuts? Though Glenn's encore expedition may be scientifically trivial, it is just as heroic as his first...
...emotional colorizing as a good thing. Waking from the prolonged childhood of the '50s (when Ike was the omnipotent dad), America attended to the culture bubbling under its consciousness--to rhythm and blues, to Lenny Bruce and Redd Foxx, to Lolita and Lady Chatterley's Lover--and took a heroic leap into the enthralling unknown, the flourishing of art, the liberation of race and gender. Yet it can also be argued that the opening of those emotional pores brought a more debased culture: drug epidemics, teen pregnancy, splatter movies, penis-size jokes on every sitcom, Marilyn Manson and Monica Lewinsky...