Tradition favors guys during the holidays.
Left-wing writers tend to have trouble with the idea that motels owned by immigrants and the gun shop owner working at Wal-Mart are politically connected, both in how they affect a white, native-born and tradition-bred guy's experience of his surroundings and in how they reflect forces far beyond that guy's ability to control or even influence.
The Tough Guy tradition comes up from Fenimore Cooper, with a touch of Poe, through Melville, Faulkner and Hemingway.
Seb Brown: Goalkeeper, following the tradition of Dickie Guy and Dave Beasant in saving two penalties in the shoot-out victory over Luton I used to go to watch Wimbledon at Selhurst Park and I was at Southampton, aged 10, in tears with my dad when we were relegated from the Premier League in 2000.
America has a long tradition of sensitive guys.
RN: Continue with no formal press conferences; he's killed that tradition and you guys have given up nagging.
The Greatest Show on Earth is renowned for its clowns, and this year's batch seems to hold up that tradition, especially the guys on the stilts.
But in hallowed Grisham tradition — where the guys in the custom-tailored suits are always trumped by the scrappy underdogs — he is the defense attorney you want sitting beside you in the courtroom when something unpleasant hits the fan.
It is in the very well-worn American Pie/Porky's tradition of ugly guys obsessed with getting laid, keg parties, fake IDs etc. It's immature, gross and - some of the time - very funny.
From there Rupert turned his attention to American character considered more broadly, the results of which appeared in American Tough: The Tough-Guy Tradition and American Character (1984) and The Pursuit of American Character (1988).
Mr. Jarvi received a thorough training in the "dead white guys" tradition himself, first at the Manhattan School of Music in New York, where he studied piano intensively, and later at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he was enticed into conducting when composer-friends who needed someone to conduct their new pieces tapped the willing but inexperienced Mr. Jarvi.
