Word: mythicize
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There were three other members of Creedence--Doug Clifford, Stu Cook and John's brother Tom--but it quickly became clear that it was John's band. This caused some resistance among the others. They were chafing against the autocracy of a young man whose Arcadian visions of a mythic America (Green River, Proud Mary) were as ample and unsentimental as his urban cameos (Down on the Corner), his musical allegories (Travelin' Band), his raunchy rockers (Sweet Hitch-Hiker) and his heartsick love songs (Wrote a Song for Everyone...
They scattered across the length and breadth of India like figures in a mythic carnival, 5,418 candidates in all, from 27 different political parties. Some wooed voters from the backs of elephants and camels; some swooped down in private helicopters; others traveled amid a cacophony of acrobats and magicians and drums...
Added Erickson, "some poets used a mythic or classical mode like Homer, others a lyrical mode, like Wordsworth. These men used American history...
Puzo works hard to make his story back-lot mythic. Spartacus led his slave army out of the Cammarata hills to fight the Romans. A skeleton dug out of the rocky soil is said to have belonged to one of Hannibal's elephants. The novel's hero, Turi Guiliano, is a Latin Robin Hood who can recite the Song of Roland and the basic guerrilla manual with matching ease. When he is not slipping into Montelepre for his mother's cooking and the attractions of a young widow, Turi muses under starry skies: "He no longer doubted...
...side sat an aging Ronald Reagan, still tall in the saddle, holding forth a future rooted in a mythic past of heroic patriots and open opportunity. He rode into the election with several large achievements: a real grip on inflation, an undeniable economic recovery and a substantial defense buildup. But he bore the burden of a monstrous deficit for whose solution he offered only the Band-Aid of a balanced-budget amendment. He may frequently have been wrong on his facts, but he spoke to the wordless groping of millions of Americans seeking comfort in the future. Reagan wanted...