Word: savioring
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...Prometheus myth itself. The idea of an indifferent God whose supposed wisdom seems more like folly is familiar today; the words of those who urge the rebel to conform ring true. What is incredible about an expression of the Prometheus myth today is the concept of a savior of mankind. About the Titan's successful defiance of tyranny the play revolves; upon the distance of this idea from our own experience, the production sinks into a dramatic rite...
...main reasons for drug use: the seeking of pleasure, and the avoidance of pain. Those who are of the pleasure-seeking type often find that there are drugs which are, indeed, pleasurable and may use them, casually, often or not. Those of the pain-avoiding category clasp their latest savior to their bosoms with a desperate grip, be it heroin, alcohol, or evangelical Christianity. The latter generally choose alcohol, because it is cheap and plentiful, and with the figures topping six million, alcoholics are indeed plentiful in our society. There will always be a small minority who will seek...
Still stranger than the Rocky-Rose partnership was their choice of a savior: Democrat Robert Ferdinand Wagner, 62, the man who had served three terms as mayor, from 1954 to 1965. As mayor, Wagner made some advances in civil rights, increased the police force and kept peace with the unions; but in many other areas he exhibited a glacial inertia, and he left the city with more potholes in its streets and more holes in its civic pride than he had inherited. Indeed, Rockefeller and Rose supported Lindsay in 1965 as the man who could best "save" New York City...
...followers, Charles de Gaulle was nothing less than "twice the savior of his country," and even today the Gaullists are reluctant to entrust the telling of the precious legend to anyone who might tamper with it. Nobody knows this better than French Film Makers Alain de Sédouy and André Harris, who (along with Director Marcel Ophuls) collaborated in 1969 on the superb documentary The Sorrow and the Pity, an exhaustive and exhausting (4½-hour-long) study of a French city under the Nazi Occupation (TIME, March...
Naturally, Français, Si Vous Saviez became a center of controversy overnight. The pro-government France-Soir praised it as "exciting" and "excellent," while Historian François Furet attacked it as a "monument of crafty demagogy" that sought to turn De Gaulle "from a savior into a scapegoat...