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For Reaganites, Sinatra symbolized all that was once right about America (and would be again after a few years of supply-side economics): classy music, machismo, bonhomie, and good times.
In an age when Ronald Reagan has slipped into the haze of Alzheimer's disease, when Susan Faludi writes movingly of males clinging to stereotypical notions of machismo as they're laid off their factory jobs and symbolically robbed of potency, it can put a lump in your throat to watch Schickel building--like the hero in Field of Dreams --a shrine to the Dad whom so many elements of the culture have come to undervalue.
A more "feminized" society is not the repressed, horrible existence Lind portrays--why are less violence, less aggression, less machismo, less extremist Darwinism, and greater sensitivity bad things?
They attribute his enduring popularity to his complex persona, which coupled upper-class urbanity with working-class gruffness and machismo with tenderness.
Macho literally means “male,” and machismo is the concept of “maleness,” but in American culture it has come to mean an exaggerated masculinity.