American Tough: The Tough-Guy Tradition and American CharacterBloomsbury Academic, 14.03.1984 - 221 Seiten |
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... serve , and defend . " HIT THE LINE " / " TOUGH IT OUT " The tough guy's need for action cuts across a more universal defi- nition of toughness that Americans also honor . The American belief in dynamism and grand - slam impact , in ...
... serve , and defend . " HIT THE LINE " / " TOUGH IT OUT " The tough guy's need for action cuts across a more universal defi- nition of toughness that Americans also honor . The American belief in dynamism and grand - slam impact , in ...
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... serves exploration . In 1970 a Boston survey of people's attitudes to technology - in- cluding television , computers , factories , and machines in general - found that an overwhelming majority ( 83 percent ) approved of technology as a ...
... serves exploration . In 1970 a Boston survey of people's attitudes to technology - in- cluding television , computers , factories , and machines in general - found that an overwhelming majority ( 83 percent ) approved of technology as a ...
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... serves that British society at the time was more military and that its language may well have been more violent though possibly less concerned with mastery of nature . 72. In tracing the origins of tough and aggressive slang , I found a ...
... serves that British society at the time was more military and that its language may well have been more violent though possibly less concerned with mastery of nature . 72. In tracing the origins of tough and aggressive slang , I found a ...
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ACT values aggressive Amer American culture American toughness attitudes behavior belying device boys British chap Christopher Lasch classless competitive concern with toughness consumer corporate cult Daniel David Riesman democratic Despite dime novels dynamic early economic effeminacy especially essay Eugene Burdick fear feminization fiction football frontier Gamesman groups hard Harvey Wheeler hero historical ican idea images individual industrial John John Dizikes Kennedy laconic language less Lonely Crowd Maccoby machismo male manly masculinity mastery military modern moral movie myth Nathan Todd ness nineteenth century notions of toughness novels organization paperback physical political popular produced prowess public school puritan Richard Rip Kirby roles Rupert Wilkinson self-reliance sexual society soft strength Strenuous stress styles term theme Theodore Roosevelt tion Tom Wolfe tough-guy twentieth century Ugly American upper-class urban versus virility Western World World War II writers York