This creates an element of fantasy, as the viewers are able to
romanticize about and root for their favorite person.
Americans tend to
romanticize the figure of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and not without reason.
There is a tendency to
romanticize manic-depressive disorder.
Westerners can
romanticize the majestic creatures from a safe distance, but people who live around wild elephants have their own thresholds.
"To say that poverty was being romanticized here by Americans who could afford to
romanticize it is to say the obvious," writes Burner.
She was a writer and artist who, like Artaud and van Gogh, operated in the zone in which visionary sensibility fades into mental illness--an easy place to
romanticize but a difficult one in which to live.
(The modern left's tendency to
romanticize radicalism is one of LaBruce's targets as well.) Reich is ultimately humorous and fun, more so if you have been keeping up on your radical leftist reading.
As she reflects on her life, the film weaves itself around the 1997 Little Rock Nine 40th-anniversary celebrations at the White House, where another Little Rocker, President Bill Clinton, awarded them Congressional medals for bravery While it loses its sharp focus in connecting Minnijean to a variety of contemporary protest movements, Journey to Little Rock smartly refuses the temptation to
romanticize its subject and offers revealing, painful glimpses of the personal costs of political struggle.
Too many of our contemporaries in the liberal democracies of the West demonize the rich,
romanticize the poor, and wish to blend the whole of society into one homogeneous mass under an enforced "equality" in which no one can be different in material status or social standing.
He underscores the vulnerability of the centrally directed welfare state in the absence of national community, and he does not
romanticize about national purpose.
If all this can make Pompeii look like a gay utopia that left an enduring legacy, it's also easy to
romanticize the past.
This is both a sad statement and a challenge: Let us, as progressives, not
romanticize American citizens, but instead work to break through their distractions.
