Word: savioring
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...sense of martyrdom. Now: the desire is for self-preservation. Vekhi listed characteristics that seemed to be faults at the time -but today they may seem virtues. For example, in the past universal equality was an aim worthy of self-sacrifice. Then: the heroic intellectual dreamt of being the savior of mankind or Russia. He was convinced the only course was social struggle. Now: the only course is subservience...
...governmental systems, but even before he developed these plans--Ives displayed a similar ambivalence of feeling. "Vote for Names! Names! Names!" he exclaimed during the 1912 election. "Three nice men Teddy, Woodrow & Bill $ame $ame $ame." But that didn't stop him from greeting Wilson as the savior of the proletariat the world over, the man who was going to maintain old-fashioned American democratic ideals and smash "the Hohenzollern Hog". That most first-hand observers of the war saw in it few old-fashioned American ideals, and certainly little salvation for the proletariat the world over--just...
...ouster, fled Germany in 1933, and churned out propaganda while leapfrogging about Europe one step ahead of the Gestapo. In 1941 he found refuge in Canada (probably in exchange for information he furnished Allied intelligence), where he pecked at his typewriter and awaited repatriation as Germany's savior. He returned home in 1955, founded a new nationalist party-and watched it fizzle forthwith...
...perhaps only Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt played comparable roles in profound crises that threatened the very survival of the society. But the phenomenon is wholly unpredictable; there have been numerous upheavals in human history?the medieval plagues in Europe, for example?in which the event did not summon a savior. Ireland's eternal troubles illustrate history's frequent refusal to beckon a great leader with...
...myth of Nazi invincibility by engineering the defense of Moscow with a flood of Siberian troops, and later won the great battles of Stalingrad, Leningrad and the Dnieper. An icy strategist and disciplinarian, he pushed to Berlin, sustaining a million casualties, and returned to Moscow as Russia's savior. Annoyed by Zhukov's celebrity, Stalin downplayed the marshal's achievements and farmed him off to bush-league posts in Odessa and the Urals. The day after Stalin's death in 1953, Zhukov was made Deputy Defense Minister, then rose to full Minister and member...