Word: maleness
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...whose wife has left him, whose son has died and who does not want to know how wounded he is. In 1995 Ford revisited Bascombe in Independence Day. By that time in real estate sales in New Jersey, Bascombe was squarely in the territory of the intricately beleaguered U.S. male in Walker Percy's The Moviegoer or John Updike's Rabbit novels. A great book, Independence Day won Ford the Pulitzer Prize...
...church historian, points out that the habits of obedience, especially in a hierarchical religion like Catholicism, are particularly hard to break. And O?Grady was the kind of man who is capable of seducing a mother in order to gain easier access to his real prey, her children, both male and female. The trail of ruined lives he left behind - men and women incapable of marriage, of normal sexual lives - is a palpable sadness in this film. And that says nothing about the damage he did to the religious beliefs that were so important in their humble lives...
Discrimination has a long and hoary tradition at Harvard. At first, students were all white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, and male. Eventually, men of other faiths were admitted, as were men of color. Finally, with the merger of Radcliffe, women became full members of the Harvard community. In the past decade, the changes have accelerated; the advent of affirmative action has made diversity of every form a goal of most universities.As it should be. But while we firmly believe that a diverse campus is a strong campus, a new frontier has been reached that deserves further scrutiny—affirmative action...
...plot—Rob’s revisiting of his top five, all-time, desert island breakups—is condensed into one weak scene and approximately 30 seconds of musical interlude, during a song sung by the apparition of Bruce Springsteen. Hornby meditates on the nature of male self-centeredness and inability to grow up; Kitt and lyricist Amanda Green’s score simply lulls the audience into a bored stupor. (Quite literally, my date for the evening fell asleep before intermission...
...Imagine yourself as a 20-year-old Iranian male: From the time you were old enough to play outside, the kids on your block lived for the festivity of Muslim holidays. You collected money to sell cold drinks on the Twelfth Imam's birthday; you lined up behind the great marching rows of young men chanting and flagellating themselves on Ashura, a Shi'ite mourning ritual. On these occasions, there were crowds, bright lights, and delicious things to eat; outside of these occasions, there was basically no fun permitted in public. In school, your teacher taught you to pray...