Word: mythicize
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...Michael Chabon's pulitzer prizewinning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Josef Kavalier flees fascism in Europe for America, where he creates the Escapist, a comic-book hero based on the Golem of Prague, the clay giant and protector of ancient Jewish legend. Mythic defenders, Chabon shows, have long been with us. But it took America to make them into superheroes: big, magical men (and sometimes women) who protect us and embody our national character...
...which has engulfed our country. This view, provoked by our emotional response to Sept. 11, is that there is good and evil in the world, and right now, the forces of good—America, Harvard—must rise up to quash evil in a grand battle of mythic proportions...
...civil society in distant lands?” No question. Harvard professors are the leading intellectuals of our day, and as such they should use that knowledge for good, practical purposes. But, no one—I think Summers included—really expects Harvard to contribute to a mythic battle against the evil Taliban. Saying so cheapens the way we think about Sept...
Students read books like the Bhagavad Gita and John Stuart Mill's On Liberty with the goal of looking at themselves and their society in new ways. The one-semester course has achieved mythic status among Jewell students. Freshmen sweat it; sophomores freak the freshmen out about it; juniors grudgingly approve of it; and seniors reflect on it as life changing...
...year occupation of its northern neighbor is remembered in the Israeli collective psyche as its very own Vietnam-style quagmire, an unwinnable war that cost thousands of Israeli lives and ended in ignominious defeat. And for that same reason, over in the West Bank and Gaza, Lebanon carries considerable mythic significance, too. Only there, it's not op-ed columnists but young men with guns and bombs who draw the link with Hezbollah's two-decade guerrilla campaign that shattered the aura of invincibility of the Middle East's strongest, best-equipped and most technologically superior army...