Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Henry Livings. This English import is a gorgeous farce with a stubbornly heroic anti-hero whom no machine, man or woman can tame. In a perfect cast, Dustin Hoffman is pluperfect...
Belief & Creed. Certainly there was nothing more calculated to make Pike appear to many churchmen as a sympathetic and possibly heroic figure than the idea of trying him as a heretic. However exasperated they may be by Pike's antidogmatism, Episcopalians generally seem...
...Henry Livings. This English import is a gorgeous farce with a stubbornly heroic antihero whom no machine, man or woman can tame. In a perfect cast, Dustin Hoffman is pluperfect. THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN first opened in 1925 and is the only play that George S. Kaufman ever wrote without a collaborator. This show-biz saga sags a bit now, and the lines are scarcely howlers, but period costumes and an able, loving cast endow it with innocent nostalgia...
Throughout her history Canada has struggled with the U.S. to preserve her national identity. Canadians regard the 19th century as a period of heroic resistance, when every year brought a new American attempt to achieve manifest destiny in the North. But at the start of the 20th century, the nature of the struggle changed. Americans began to see Canada as a market for manufactured goods and a supplier of raw materials, no longer simply as a source of new territory...
...station in one week, the author found 334 completed or attempted killings, mostly during youngsters' viewing time. The heroic figure in TV and movie drama is often the "victorious man of violence." Toy manufacturers fill the Christmas counters with toy guns and war games. Even Superman is unhealthy fare: "the embodiment of racial superiority, race pride, race prejudice." Explains Wertham: "No dark-skinned or dark-complexioned or not-so-tall-or-so-full-chested youngster, whoever he is or whatever he achieves,' can measure up to the white Superman.'' The adult, too, is everywhere assaulted...