Word: mythicize
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...Hill stands as one of the great mythic figures in America's radical labor history. A songwriter who skewered middle class values with scornful lyrics, an agitator who belonged to the dynamic leftist union, the Industrial Workers of the World (the Wobblies), a radical who was executed on a murder conviction based on circumstantial evidence, Hill led a colorful life perfect for idealization. During the months of court appeals be encouraged the myth growing around him. His flair for the dramatic continued down to his parting words of "Don't waste any time in mourning--Organize!" and insured his elevation...
...hewn every element in the vista to its most essential aspect. In this manner, the side of a cliff is painted as color emboldened by light; his nature is composed of remarkable harmonies. A spiritual sympathy for the Oriental arrangement of space lends the pictures a vast, almost mythic composure. His attempt to create atmosphere is in both the tradition of English watercolors and Oriental landscape painting...
...dish tends to be greeted with the same ritually stupefied reverence. Hence la légende Picasso, which has been energetically prodded along by writers like Hélène Parmelin and photographers like David Douglas Duncan and Gjon Mili. From their breathless accounts a satyr rises, mythic, Gargantuan, and fatally easy to parody. The Maestro's working day, one might suppose, begins with a light breakfast of goat's testicles and salade niçoise. Then, surrounded by a flock of admiring tame doves, he descends to his studio and executes 30 engravings, two murals...
...held over the faultless jacket over the faultless heart. All is stoic gallantry in a tradition that seems, at last, more correct than moving-a special kind of theater. And what is that exotic yet all too familiar sound in a reader's ear? Somewhere in the mythic South, where white pillars are carved with graffiti by Tennessee Williams, Margaret Leighton is warming up her Old Vic-Southern accent. Stand by, Hester...
...Nancy Hanks II from Savannah to Atlanta. Dozens of other great trains, such as the Twentieth Century Limited and the Phoebe Snow between Hoboken, N.J., and Chicago, had already vanished. What remains of rail service may become better than ever, as Amtrak promises rather unconvincingly, but the special mythic quality has been lost on the wind with the vanished steamers...