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Ironically, Avildsen has intentionally chosen this bigger-than-life storyline to test the reality of the dream. What heavyweight champion could, like the film's smooth-talking Apollo Creed, choose his own challenger for a staged New Year's Day bicentennial fight? And who would believe that even the media-mad Creed would bill the fight as the symbol of American opportunity because it pits a certain-to-lose unknown white challenger against a virtually undefeatable black...
Nobody would, anymore, of course. Nobody, that is, except Rocky Balboa, the "Italian Stallion" Creed chooses who, in his way of innocence, still believes that dreams come true. Rocky is an ordinary guy cloaked in the garb of a hero. With his desire to fight the good fight in spite of the odds, he is an admirably uncompromising man in a compromising world...
...became the first Jew to receive tenure in the English department) Trilling slowly gained the reputation of someone more than a courtly scholar. His doctoral dissertation on Matthew Arnold was published in 1939-in the heyday of the textual analyses by the New Criticism-and it restated the Arnoldian creed that "a work of literature ... has value as a criticism of life...
...previous activities had alienated the Court; his new creed divorced him from the Russian literary circles, which remained primarily oriented towards utopian socialism and anarchism. Anna describes his love-hate relationship with both the political and literary establishments. He became ecstatic upon reading a favorable opinion of himself in comparison to Tolstoy, and constantly complained about literary "cliques" from which he felt excluded. He cut off relations with a life-long friend who had failed to introduce him to Tolstoy. Towards the end, Dostoevsky cultivated the friendship of Grand Dukes, and expressed his admiration for Tsar Alexander III. The last...
Nader, a 1958 Harvard Law School graduate, said that if the goal of law schools is to "develop necessary analytic and empirical skills to further justice," they are actually working against their professed creed...