Word: manhoods
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...buddies still held there by evil Vietnamese who look like the wily, despicable Japanese in World War II films. These changes reflect a very literal and significant transaction. They suggest that in the American imagination, the Viet Nam veteran, erstwhile psychotic, cripple and loser, has been given back his manhood...
...would very cheerfully help a white student who would ask a benevolence of a stranger," Clemens wrote to the dean in the 1885 letter, which has been authenticated by Yale Scholar Shelley Fisher Fishkin. "But I do not feel so about the other color. We have ground the manhood out of them, & the shame is ours, not theirs; & we should pay for it." Like Huck, Clemens remained true to his word on important matters: he paid for McGuinn's board until his 1887 graduation. McGuinn went on to become a mentor and idol of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall...
...Hughie," Henry Kissinger remarks, as if "he were giving an endorsement to the pastry chef." Those words, Morrow acrimoniously notes, are what Rockefeller demands for 21 years, along with the deference of a talented man writing below his worth: "In my sight, Rockefeller cost my father something of his manhood...
Then there is character development (ha, ha). Jonathan realizes realizes that his ex-girlfriend, who has recently abandoned him for a football quarterback, was not really what he wanted anyway. He now reaches manhood (surprise, surprise). He asks out the homely girl who has been vying for attention throughout the movie. She has been also suddenly been transformed into a beautiful woman by the time Jonathan asks her out, thus reducing his new found maturity to his earlier sex quest...
Science fantasy is an act of subversion disguised as a fairy tale. In primal imagery and orotund cadences it sets the young imagination on a children's crusade against malevolent power. It describes a vicarious rite of passage through bloodshed and anarchy to heroic manhood; it upends the prevailing social order to establish a new moral equilibrium. For the generation of budding revolutionaries in the 1960s, Frank Herbert's Dune was a magical mystery trilogy that, along with The Lord of the Rings and the Gormenghast books, galvanized the spirit like a Disney Das Kapital. In Dune, rival...