Word: heros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...semifinal game Saturday morning, Harvard defeated Boston College, 26-11. Chris Liles was the hero of the contest, accounting for 18 points with two trys, two penalty kicks and two conversions. Senior wing Mike Gibbs, a veteran of all three Beanpot wins, and eight-man Mark Sagarin each added...
...initial enthusiasm followed immediately by unmanning apathy. He has decided that he must be homosexual. Patrick's tasks include talking Tim out of this idea and keeping his own marriage from foundering. The author trots out these carnal misadventures with his usual comic flair. Patrick is a typical Amis hero, a young fogy who finds much of the world exasperating. Beneath the crackling surface, though, lies a more somber tale of people behaving badly and, in most cases, finally coming to their senses...
...many, though, a dream of athletic stardom is the one that got away. So they stick with baseball, living and dying with their team, analyzing stats with the rapt anguish of a rabbinical student cramming for a final. To their favorite players they are both sons and fathers -- part hero worshipers, part child psychologists. They become a collective, possessive lover of their idols. Baseball fever: boys catch it, men can't shake...
...hero of Damn Yankees was a pennant-winning natural named Shoeless Joe Hardy. The hero of Phil Alden Robinson's Field of Dreams is a farmer (Kevin Costner) who dreams of bringing Shoeless Joe Jackson back to earth for one more game. The great outfielder may have helped throw the 1919 World Series, but the farmer idolizes him and his Black Sox teammates for their innocence! So with the help of his trusting wife (Amy Madigan) and a crusty black author (James Earl Jones) who doesn't mind that all the old major-leaguers were white, he plows down...
Sullivan painted North as a slighted hero...