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...priorities seem implicit in the autobiography that Carter wrote as he set out on his presidential quest. Yet despite his credentials-boyhood in and manhood return to South Georgia, a couple of terms in the state legislature, the governorship-how much of a Southern stamp does Carter really have? After all, he left Georgia at 18 for the U.S. Naval Academy, was exposed there to everything from ballroom dancing to naval strategy, followed that with windows on the non-Southern world in such places as Oahu, Hong Kong and Schenectady...
...helps to sound dumb. But young liberal Southerners are rejecting the views-especially about race-of their Confederate ancestors. For the first time since the failure of the old Populist movement, we've got a workable coalition of poor whites, liberal whites and minorities. Jimmy Carter's manhood is entwined with Andrew Young's, just like Huck Finn's was with...
...average opera company, that is saying a lot. Back in the 1770s, when it got ready to put on Gluck's landmark opera Orfeo and Euridice, 18th century male-chauvinist Parisians balked at having a male contralto play the hero, considering that an affront to their manhood; poor Gluck had to rewrite the part for tenor. In the 19th century, even a Wagner or a Verdi had to include a ballet in his opera or risk not getting it performed in Paris. In more recent times, the price of government subsidization included requirements that more than...
...early 19th century, was captured by the Indians and treated as a slave. He proved his mettle and finally became one of the tribe by enduring all manner of tests and initiation rites, including a ceremony in which he was strung up by his pectorals. Manhood through pain and all that. The Sioux apparently set great store by such things...
Visions of Glory. Like any formal bedroom comedy, The Ritz skims along on a plot that defies both good sense and synopsis. At no point is Gaetano's life or manhood entirely safe, and in battling to preserve both, he stumbles across deranged characters like Googie Gomez (Rita Moreno), a busted-down Puerto Rican entertainer with visions of Broadway glory. So far, success has kept well ahead of her. Googie's problem, mainly, is her accent, which is thick enough to weigh on a scale. In her lust for fame and fortune, Googie mistakes Gaetano...