Word: mortalized
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...most basic baseball fantasy (Damn Yankees and The Natural are typical examples) an ordinary mortal suddenly, if briefly, finds himself endowed with superhuman powers. These he employs to upset the elegantly balanced geometry of the game by lending his services to some perpetually losing club, thereby turning it into a perpetual winner. In these tales, individual dreams of glory -- permanently arrested adolescent division -- are fused with the mass yearnings of a fandom frustrated by years of suffering in the cellar with their local heroes...
...grand leaders on the world stage? Largely it is because of the absence of grand challenges, or at least of the clear good-vs.-evil challenges that can rally a people and call forth bold leadership. Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were 20th century archetypes of the crisis leader. Mortal peril and powerful enemies can force leadership on ordinary men -- Harry Truman, for example. So can wrenching historic changes, like the dramatic endgame of the cold war, which cast players such as Reagan, Thatcher, Gorbachev and Walesa in historic roles...
...When DeConcini's heavy wooden office door opened, out stepped CIA Director R. James Woolsey -- accompanied by none other than Yevgeni Primakov, head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, successor organization to the KGB. Picking up their guards, the chiefs of the world's two largest intelligence agencies, once mortal enemies, bustled down the corridor to another meeting...
...telling that to Rocky and Marlin executives. Both franchises are mortal locks to draw more than three million fans this year--even if they both lose 100 games. This you can count on. For now, the teams are novelties. Novelties wear...
...Bush, whose Episcopal faith came to him as naturally as his other responsibilities as a legatee of the Eastern establishment, Clinton describes his relationship with God as something that has to be achieved, a spiritual place he is constantly struggling to reach despite an acute sense of his own mortal shortcomings. In one of three instances when he discussed the subject during last year's campaign, he told viewers of VISN, an interfaith cable network: "My faith tells me all of us are sinners, each of us is gone in our own way and fallen short of the glory...