Word: hectoring
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What then is the American, this new man?" asked French immigrant Hector St. John de Crevecoeur in 1782. Two hundred ten years later, many Americans answer, "No one." America has always treated its ethnic and racial minorities abominably. The only consolation they have for being shut out of the mainstream is that they should never have wanted to join it in the first place. Happily -- what with multicultural education and bilingualism -- the very concept of a mainstream is being junked...
This sense of being both backward and culturally different from the West has haunted Russian intellectuals ever since Peter the Great (1672-1725) first tried to hector his unwilling country into the arms of European culture. During the 19th century, Slavophiles argued that the spiritual and communal culture based on Orthodoxy was superior to the materialism and rationalism of the West. Their opponents, the Westernizers, bemoaned Russia's "Asiatic" backwardness. They wanted their country to absorb as much of Western economics, politics and culture as quickly as possible...
...moral issues involved might seem straightforward, Arthur Miller made them rich and intriguingly complex in THE PRICE, his 1968 tale of two brothers dividing the petty sticks of furniture that constitute their father's estate. The play returned to Broadway last week in an impeccable staging, with film veteran Hector Elizondo (Pretty Woman) giving the performance of his career as the resentful, duty- bound brother and Eli Wallach wringing every imaginable laugh from a tragicomic turn as an 89-year-old immigrant furniture dealer...
...windy trifles like Mrs. Cage. Adapted from a one-act play by Nancy Barr, it stars Anne Bancroft as a housewife who, without apparent reason, shoots a woman in a supermarket parking lot following a violent robbery, then confesses the crime to a police lieutenant, played by Hector Elizondo. The drama consists almost entirely of a long, rambling, needlessly elusive dialogue in which the woman's motive is gradually revealed. Suffice it to say it has something to do with middle-aged married angst and the theme song from Rawhide...
Ezra lost his semi-final match in three straight games to Hector Barrigan, the number one seed for the tournament and the eventual champion...