Word: non-hero
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...being considered by the editors for Essay treatment: the new status of the intellectual in the U.S.-more highly respected than ever but with fewer great causes; pornography and obscenity and the probable beginning of a decline in public permissiveness; the status of philosophy in the U.S.; the non-hero in literature and on the stage. And many more...
Losers, by and large, tend to be weepers. And weepers tend to be bores. But George Lisle-Spruce, the down-at-heel non-hero of British Novelist Scott's newest book, is neither. He watches himself sinking for what may be the last time with a detached compassion that is as refreshing as it is rare in an age much given to voluble self-pity...
...breakfast) remains about the most militantly ham-and-eggs American traveler since the innocents went abroad in Mark Twain's generation. The book is dedicated to Simone de Beauvoir, doyenne of French existentialists-a gesture of some generosity in the face of Algren's appearance as a non-hero in De Beauvoir's last novel...
...playwrights and novelists, mostly from the grubby lower reaches of provincial life, hammered furiously at the deadening smugness of their society. It was a time when many of their countrymen were groping for a new sense of purpose and national identity. "Nobody thinks, nobody cares," cried Jimmy Porter, the non-hero of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger. "There aren't any good, brave causes left. If the big bang does come, and we all get killed off, it'll just be for the Brave New-nothing-very-much-thank...
Paul Bembroy is by definition a non-hero. Having failed both as a lawyer and then as a farmer, he now runs a grain elevator for a prosperous friend in a lonely wheat town. He is competent and intelligent and resigned. His big, blonde wife has given him three children whom he can hardly approach, so deep is the gulf of misunderstanding. And the wife herself has been blinded by an accident. Yet it is she who, by comparison, takes on the heroic cast. She goes on doing the housework, baking the bread, coping with the children. As for Paul...