Word: saviorism
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...because he might have saved even more people but did not. Keneally is distressed by that passage. But he also, and correctly, insists the movie "isn't at all untrue to the spirit of Schindler . . . to that ambiguity that attracted me to him in the first place -- the scoundrel savior." More important, the movie arrives when it is very obviously needed. The few survivors of the Holocaust are old now, and dying, and the task of remembering, of testifying, must pass to members of Spielberg's generation and others still younger. It is a hopeful sign, perhaps, that...
Donning a real sword for Halloween, junior Kwame van Leeuwen, a world championship fencer, appropriately chose to be Zorro, the master of drape swinging and savior for those in distress...
...N.B.A. will miss Jordan most. He was seen by many as the savior of the league. In the 1970s, N.B.A. revenue was down, television deals were waning. The reason was simple if unpleasant: pro basketball was becoming a predominantly black sport, and the audiences the teams and the networks wanted were mainly white. Along came Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, and the N.B.A. started perking up. But it took Michael Jordan to take the sport into the promised land of perpetually full arenas and high Nielsen ratings. Everybody liked Mike. The N.B.A. groomed Jordan just the way his corporate sponsors...
Luckily, Co-Captain Liz Berkery, the season-long savior and Harvard's leading scorer for the umpteenth game, stepped up to score a key goal that put Harvard ahead again 8-7. And--finally!--he defense was able to clamp down the rest of the way to preserve...
...prepare the orchestra for the next millennium," says Salonen, whose initial three-year contract as the orchestra's 10th music director in 73 years began this season. The city's brief classical-music history doesn't bother him at all. "I don't see myself as the savior of the Central European tradition in a backwater," he says. "On the contrary, the relative lack of tradition in L.A. is attractive. Central Europe can be very stuffy...