Word: manhoods
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...that it often turned against him and his own, and made all love, all trust, all joy impossible-this past, this endless struggle to achieve and reveal and confirm a human identity, human authority, yet contains . . . something very beautiful . . . That man who is forced each day to snatch his manhood, his identity, out of the fire of human cruelty that rages to destroy it knows, if he survives his effort, and even if he does not survive it, something about himself and human life that no school on earth-and indeed, no church-can teach . . . It helps to explain...
...Joshua Moses Javits, 13, it was an auspicious entrance into Jewish manhood. He was in Israel for his bar mitzvah, and his proud papa, New York Senator Jacob Javits, 58, made sure that it was a memorable event. First young Joshua was whisked to a Negev Desert kibbutz to meet Premier David Ben-Gurion, who administered an impromptu Biblical quiz. Next it was a session with Israeli President Itzhak Ben-Zvi, who nodded approvingly as Joshua recited from the Torah. On the big day, in Jerusalem's cavernous Yeshurun synagogue, Joshua marked his confirmation by intoning in near flawless...
...level of taste in the U.S.-a development that, in turn, has been mirrored in advertising itself. Even its critics concede that advertising has come a long way since the days when national magazines were littered with ads for nostrums that purported to cure everything from consumption to lost manhood, and when a U.S. soapmaker could bugle: "If we could teach the Indians to use SAPOLIO, it would quickly civilize them." Today most ads, if not 99, 44, 100% of them, strive for both taste and believability. And, assuming a continued increase in U.S. affluence and cultivation, tomorrow...
...create a steadily developing, complex assault on a pair of Japanese-held hills. Without seeming to interrupt, it examines each individual's reactions to his own private world of pride and fear. But much of what Jones tells of the men-their need to prove their manhood, the revival meeting frenzy that carries them forward, the nearly insane numbness that battle finally brings them-has been touched on often before...
...Bandy, whose long and inscrutably deadpan face exasperates everyone who lays eyes upon it. Bandy's blank exterior hides nothing but innocence. Son of a Canadian cleric, he is unsullied by liquor or women. But then Bandy goes off to fight in World War I and lurches into manhood like a drunk stumbling down a flight of stairs-always headed in the right direction but never quite in control of himself or the situation...