Sentences with phrase «american folk hero»

I was inoculated against these jabs of advice way back in the 50s, thanks to Disney's TV show on Davy Crockett, an American folk hero, one episode of which (at least) had Davy counselling, «Make sure you're right, then go ahead.»

There's even a Johnny Appleseed museum in Urbana, Ohio, which also operates a website offering plenty of great information about this American folk hero.

JOHN HENRY (2000) U.S. Release Date: October 30, 2000 Director: Mark Henn Producer: Steven Keller Imaginatively told through words, music, and stylish visuals, «John Henry» celebrates the life and legend of a great American folk hero.

As with John Wayne's Ethan Edwards (Travis's spiritual forefather), his thwarted patriarchal possessiveness is not tempered by anything like genuine concern, yet it is enough... to make him a peculiarly American folk hero.

In Douglas, Wynn thought he had an American folk hero, to whom he had promised $ 31 million to fight Tyson in a rematch.

Not exact matches

• Darla — Inspired by American fashion model Darla Baker • Joni — Inspired by folk singer Joni Mitchell or Joni from Happy Days • Lavinia - Of Latin origin Lavinia was the daughter of King Latinus and the wife of Trojan hero Aeneas, who named the city Lavinium in her honour.

We didn't make his sophisticated, subtle Shop Girl a hit, so he dishes out what he knows, alas, today's American audiences will gobble up greedily: a painful assemblage of distasteful slapstick (not one but two elderly and infirm folks are abused — by the putative hero, no less — in the opening moments of the film alone), cultural stereotyping, and celebrations of idiocy that will try the patience of anyone with a double - digit IQ or age.

For instance: enjoying a great work of children's literature; learning about the country's founding and other key parts of American history; exploring the Greek myths; studying folk heroes; putting on a play; performing a concert; and figuring out how to get along with others.

Increasingly disillusioned with American politics and the government's abandonment of its poorest citizens, Guthrie was compelled to speak out, tirelessly crisscrossing the nation to entertain and advocate for the nation's poorest people with his songs, eventually earning himself a permanent place as one of America's great folk heroes.

Kent thinks of himself as a folk artist, a regionalist naively painting «Monuments to American Cultural Heroes».

Andrew Dietz's recent book «The Last Folk Hero» (Ellis Lane Press; 377 pages; $ 26.95) gives a more journalistic account of how the work of once - obscure African American artists from the South went mainstream.