Word: defeatism
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...Simpsons” and, occasionally, an episode of “The Family Guy” a roommate had downloaded onto his computer. But my summer cartooning mixes the comic and the action, and the protagonists of these shows are heroes—they display great courage, defeat their enemies and always do the right thing...
Hero cartoons provide excitement and adventure and offer an escape from everyday life. But they also teach the beauty of living in the real world—we do not always have to be successful and defeat our enemies. And while we may hope to spend our lives doing good for the world, we shouldn’t demand it from ourselves all the time. While Aladdin, Hercules and Kim must spend every half hour righting wrongs, overcoming burdens and saving the world, we can take thirty minutes off to watch them...
LETTERS MILESTONES YOUR TIME: Health ESSAY: Andrew Sullivan on the defeat of the gay-marriage...
...else into the path of a supporting forward who could shoot past the keeper. It was an approach that rewarded hard work, physicality, finishing ability (creating a goal out of a pass into the area that eluded the defense) and bottle (physical courage and a refusal to accept defeat...
...most senior members, Naoto Kan and Ichiro Ozawa, had succumbed to a far-reaching pension scandal that forced them to resign their leadership posts. With only weeks to go before the election, the nation's largest opposition party seemed rudderless and lacking a message. Political pundits predicted a thumping defeat at the hands of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's near-hegemonic Liberal Demo-cratic Party (LDP), which has had a nearly uninterrupted hold on power for almost 50 years...