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...Family Therapist Norman Paul of Boston: "They think their wives' violence is part of family life. They have come to accept it." Paralyzed by shame and guilt, they are reluctant to seek help from anyone-family, friends, counselors or the cops. Explains Steinmetz: "Police are a symbol of manhood, and it is simply too much to approach a policeman and say, The little woman has just beaten...
...would like to see a society in which patriotism and pride of race were at the forefront and where African, Asian and other alien cultures were completely rejected. I would like to see real manhood and womanhood once again valued and the current trend to unisex reversed. I would like to see greater emphasis on physical health and fitness, and a much greater organization of the young to stop them drifting into street corners, drugs and degeneration. --Mr. Tyndall, founder and chairman, The National Front...
...past, present and future seem to have conspired to keep Henry Blanton in a permanent state of arrested development. Burdened by an impossibly demanding sense of manhood, the brutal economics of cattle raising and a changing world in which his wife wants to take an outside job, Henry wraps himself in nostalgia. He dresses in black, restores his grandfather's chuck wagon and watches westerns: "Henry, deep in his bedroll, shoring up courage against the river's dead, called on John Wayne, Gary Cooper, and Glenn Ford. Especially Glenn Ford. He was convinced then that for 'expressin...
...century in the rural Po Valley: Alfredo (Robert De Niro), the son of the area's leading landowner, and Olmo (Gerard Depardieu), a peasant who works the estate. During the film's first and better half, Bertolucci lyrically propels his heroes through the rituals of young manhood: they discover the meaning of sex and money, search for love and adjust to the passing of their family patriarchs (Burt Lancaster and Sterling Hayden). As Alfredo and Olmo grow older, their personalities are increasingly shaped by the volatile social forces that remade Italy during and between the World Wars. Eventually...
Many facts about Nabokov's youth and early manhood are little known be cause of what Field sees as the aristocratic artist's need to be inaccessible to others. If, for example, Nabokov had told us that Leo Tolstoy once patted him on the head, it would sound like name dropping. When Field relates the incident, it not only is delightful in itself but also becomes part of a rich cultural context...