Word: stalwartism
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...history lesson or homily, this is unobjectionable. But as drama, the Manichaean tussle of good vs. stupid is too often a recipe for stock characters, lazy thinking, easy exits from thorny issues. It also dodges a question many blacks posed: Who says we have to be the stalwart ones? Why can't we be as selfish, superficial, even prejudiced as everyone else? Equality in mediocrity: an American ideal that anyone can attain...
...great measure that's because it is so marvelously acted, starting with Charlie Hunnam as the eponymous hero. Blond but never bland in his stalwart innocence, he is determined to protect his desperately impoverished mother and sister and his crippled, loving friend Smike (Jamie Bell) from the machinations of dastardly Uncle Ralph...
...civil rights movement…Now terms like “equal playing field,” “racial justice,” “equal opportunity,” and, most ominous, “color-blind” drip from the lips of formerly stalwart segregationist politicians…and intellectually hired guns.” Similarly, many are seeking to apply this “perverse ingenuity” to broader national opinion as they preside over what they hope will be a societal funeral for black self-determination and African identification. Unfortunately, recruitment...
...Royal Albert Hall. We will never really know whether the Queen was amused, but it's only proper that she should come out to support Bond: after all, he has been in Her Majesty's public service for 40 years (50 if you count the books) as a stalwart of the British film industry and global ambassador of British cool--even before Cool Britannia existed...
Sonsie has partitioned itself, each domain comprising a distinctive sort of customer— stalwart males and their waifish dates cluster thickly round the bar counter, while just across the room, the prettily-preened parental-aged crowd repose in their exclusive, primly-upholstered preserve. The “café” section in the front is host to college-kid convocations and lovers’ trysts...