Word: personae
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...much of his persona as “tortured genius” comes across in your work? How did you separate or move away from media construction of the Unabomber versus actual psychological exploration...
Whether speaking about one’s particular field or larger social issues, a central component of being a public intellectual is crafting a public image. But different intellectuals have different styles of cultivating this public persona. Some, such as Princeton economist Paul Krugman, develop identities through the press, as op-ed writers and columnists. Others, like Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, give many public lectures and make frequent television appearances. Still others, like West, are known largely for their involvement in the political arena. Many use a combination of these approaches...
...that’s what your message is going to be when you speak on TV.” Despite this, Mansfield argues that professors should still use television to get across their messages. “You mustn’t shrink from being labeled or given a persona, because that’s pretty much inevitable,” Mansfield says...
...Alex P. Keaton lookalike who is turning himself into a werewolf all over the place. To make matters worse, he is using his remarkable werewolf speed, strength and agility to become the most astonishing basketball player in town. Then, benefiting from his illegitimate basketball success and his gimmicky werewolf persona, he messes around with your woman and supplants you as the most envied guy around. If you were Mick, you’d be bitter...
...Scott has to recapture the adulation that his teen wolf persona had been able to obtain, by succeeding in a more honest manner, as plain Scott Howard, a skinny and hairless short dude. There is fitting drama in the movie’s final sequence as a non-wolfed-out Scott sinks his free throws to win the championship game against his rival Mick. Then, as Scott dismisses Pamela for Boof (the less attractive, yet less bitchy love interest) he takes his place as a champion of the underdog spirit...