...kill the bookkeeper Ness must locate in order to convict Capone. CHAPTER EIGHT The Need for a Hero I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and...cant, The age discovers he is not the true one:... Lord Byron, Don Juan (1.1. 1-4) Why the continuing fascination with Eliot Ness? When he died in 1957,...

...reply, "Oh, darling, pretty, good, nice, clever, sweet darling. . . ." Part II Travels with Oedipus I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and...with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one: — Lord Byron, Don Juan — Still there is some good, said Candide. — That may be, said Martin,...

...dragons, although mostly in distant Virginia. Maybe I remembered Byron's lines from Don Juan: Xlll I want a hero: an uncommon want When every year and...with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one. Contemplating heroes, myths, and Mosby during this outre midnight amble, I came up with the idea for...

...bedroom cupboard. I want to be scattered with him. I want us to fly away on the wind together. Oliver I want a. hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after doying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one. To want is to wish, and also...

...himself less in the retribution for sin and more in the sin itself; his Don Giovanni is still in Heaven. I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and...friend Don Juan, We all have seen him in the pantomime Sent to the devil, somewhat ere his time. LORD BYRON, DON JUAN 26 "Cinderella" is an example of opera...

...opening the first canto of Donjuán (1819), written exactly twenty years after Schiller's Wallenstein, an uncommon want, When every year and month sends...with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one. We miss the point if we take it simply as a joke when Byron decides to turn to "our ancient friend...

..."the age" when the much-heralded "hero" fails to deliver: I want a hero, an uncommon want, When even' year and month sends forth a new one, Till after cloying...with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one. (1.1.1-4) Hemingway was keenly aware of the human need for "a hero," and in Spain's taurine public,...

...conflagration of republican freedom. It might be thought that the opening words of Don Juan's first canto ('I want a hero: an uncommon want, / When every year and month sends forth a new one') announce a new turn in Byron's poetry, a reversal into a quizzical and sceptical mode. But there is...

...in 1818 and left unfinished at his death in 1824, provides us with pretty much the same information: I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and...Don Juan— We all have seen him, in the pantomime, Sent to the devil somewhat ere his time. [CANTO 1, STANZA 1] A tradition is plainly announced, again...

...uncertainty of the times has made heroism an ephemeral quality, Byron suggests in the opening to Don Juan: 1 want a hero, an uncommon want, When every year and...with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one (1:1, 1-4). He quickly dismisses a host of would-be heroes, including "Vernon, the butcher Cumberland,...