In a letter dated Feb. 5, 1898, Twain wrote that his wife found the new comedy "very bully".
John Milius comments on his "Wind and the Lion" (1975), another Warner poll winner, which stars Sean Connery as a Barbary pirate, Mulay Achmed Mohammed el-Raisuli the Magnificent, loose on the Moroccan coast, and Brian Keith as a very bully Theodore Roosevelt.
Now his sense of justice (and his self-sacrifice) is under attack by the very same bullies.
The idolization of power is evident in the very way bullying is typically framed.
I've spent the last six years studying school rampage shooters, many of whom were bullied relentlessly from a very early age, and all of whom eventually became bullies themselves -- bullies of the very worst sort; bullies who tormented and killed their victims.
"Sydney feels very bullied, by the entire school, basically," (Miki Spies) maintains.
"I felt very bullied," she told the Committee.
I suffered several panic attacks and had to take a couple of days off... "I felt very unhappy, very bullied and intimidated by the situation, because I didn't know week to week what I was going to get.
Seek it out and vanquish it!" I agree, bullying is bad -- so bad in fact that I think the very title of "bully" needs to be reserved for those who really, truly are... bullies.
Wistrich spoke with Newland several times on the phone and, with her permission, compiled evidence to support the appeal: "We did a study to show how lesbians and gays are still very bullied and alienated in all sorts of circumstances outside of one or two metropolis areas…unfortunately.
