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...runaway slave who became a Presbyterian minister in Princeton, N.J., Paul showed grit from early manhood. When he went out for the Rutgers University football team, other players beat him up and pulled out his fingernails; he bore the abuse to prove his worth, and when he graduated he was a two-time All-American and the school valedictorian, exhorting his classmates to "catch a new vision." Robeson did. Four years later he was starring for O'Neill, giving the first concert composed entirely of songs by African Americans and playing the two lead roles (as a philandering preacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Basic Black | 4/24/2002 | See Source »

...already one of the Salient’s 15 hottest gay hunks of manhood, and that’s way more prestigious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIFTEEN | 3/7/2002 | See Source »

...Mormon Utah a fitting setting for the Olympic Games. The athletic prowess revered by ancient Athenians is equally important to modern Mormons. Steve Young, the Hall-of-Fame-bound NFL quarterback and a distant relation of Brigham Young, was, for the duration of his career, the quintessence of Mormon manhood?an earthly model for aspiring gods. No wonder that Utah, in survey after survey, has ranked first in the nation in longevity and last in the prevalence of certain diseases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mormons and the Olympic Ideal | 2/1/2002 | See Source »

...shows up in my politics”. Indeed, his room is adorned with posters of Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe - stars from Hollywood’s glamour heyday - as well as a towering tribute to Gladiator. “I think that Russell Crowe’s evocation of manhood is something all men should aspire to”, he explains, “particularly when there are such obvious parallels between Rome and the United States, with the combination of splendor and decadence of Empire...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Move Over Limbaugh | 12/6/2001 | See Source »

...Right to Cry in the seminal children's album Free to Be You and Me.) Brian's Song was wholly of its time, when football was a rising competitor to baseball, when the civil-rights struggle was fresh in the public mind, when men were redefining manhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Second Life Of Brian | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

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