Word: heros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost a century ago, in Tom Sawyer Abroad, he described how his hero boarded a balloon in the Midwest and flew across the Atlantic with his loyal comrade, Huck Finn. Don't journalists read Mark Twain any more...
...freshman team, McDermott started for the varsity much of his sophomore year when Peter Curtin was, sidelined with an injury. He caught eight passes and scored a touchdown that year, but there was no room for a hard worker and enthusiastic team man in the world of football hero-worship at the time. Not with Pat McInally in his senior year...
...worry about the excesses of plot. A.L. Levine is what this book is all about, and Halberstam's hero rises to beat back any challenge. Levine is a marvelously charming character: a poor Jewish orphan who works his way up from the seediness of the Bronx to the sweaty good times of a travelling salesman in the South, onward into the cushy, three-piece suited life of a millionaire real-estate developer and Democratic Party kingmaker, stopping off in countless bedrooms at every chance. Weaving together flashbacks and scenes from Levine's suddenly conceived campaign for the Presidency, Halberstam chronicles...
...street-wise ex-con who got a law degree in jail and now defends the poor and downtrodden. His legal methods are pushy, his language rough, but you can be sure he gets results for his clients. Smartly enough, the series' creators have also provided the hero with a perfect foil: Patrick O'Neal as an elegant corporate lawyer who takes Kaz into his firm. Whenever it seems that Leibman might burn a hole in the tube, Old Pro O'Neal trots out to cool things down...
...plods heavily, sometimes grotesquely, through his material. "Korea," he writes in one instance, "hangs like a lumpy phallus between the sprawling thighs of Manchuria and the Sea of Japan." Yet American Caesar succeeds despite such lapses. Fourteen years after his death, MacArthur still provides an inexhaustible story of a hero and those who worshiped and reviled...