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But that throwaway comment "image is everything" is also the very essence of one of feminism's great continuing battles: that women are told that how they look is vital; men are told that what they think is important.
But the depictions of men — "great men," vital men, men of genius (never mind, for the moment, the real debate over whether Petraeus was actually one of those) — can be just as maddening.
The Christian doctor whom Nona Màlia married is described as "majestic, bearded, and taciturn"; Rita, a fellow-student, has "her shabby clothes, her firm gaze, her concrete sadness"; Cesare, one of those morally strong, physically vital men who sustain Levi in time of need, is "very ignorant, very innocent, and very civilized".
But the idea of all these vital men depriving themselves in this way was disturbing.
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Neutrino is an extraordinarily vital man.
He was a passionate and vital man and made a powerful and lasting impression on anyone that he ever met.
His hair is white, and his skin is marked with liver spots, but at seventy-two he is still a vital man.
Clearly intelligent and assiduous to a workaholic degree, he reassuringly also has a sense of humour – a vital man-management tool.
"Here's a strong, vital man who is driven by fate to make the same mistakes again and again," Mr. Hinds said.
Today, if you approach him at his stand on the corner of Amsterdam Avenue and 86th Street and ask what he thinks of the vital man in that photo and the man now -- in debt and weary of working outdoors -- he will not be wistful.
My father was a bright, vital man and to watch him slow down and finally stop was a profound, sad and enlightening experience for me and I suspect anyone.
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