Indolent blue-collar imbecile Homer may not be a model citizen or a working-class hero, but you have to look next door, at his squarely middle-class, born-again neighbor Ned Flanders to find where the slap invariably sticks.
Some students of the shirking-class hero (thanks, Mirror) believe he was based on Mr Smythe's father.
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Swan said the New Jersey-born working-class hero's musical railings against inequality echoed his own public battle against Australian billionaire mining tycoons who oppose his tax reforms.
Here was the former NUM President immortalising himself as a working class hero through his description of the day he urged 15, 000 of Birmingham's engineering workers to join the striking miners.
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When Fleming's first Bond novel, Casino Royale, was published in 1953 by Jonathan Cape, it inaugurated a tradition for the spy hero: individualistic, unconcerned with class and handy with a deadly weapon, within a society that would attach this image to many sides of what we know as the Cold War.
Mr Urban expands his hero's achievements with some first-class descriptions of the campaign and its battles, but he might have done better to have remembered that patient cobbler in Irun and written a book describing the whole intelligence apparatus available to Wellington.
Local hero Geoffrey Boycott scored a memorable 100th first-class hundred in the Ashes Test of 1977.
George MacDonald Fraser, in the Flashman books, parodied this love of the upper class, well mannered, death defying hero.
Ned Kelly, a Robin-Hood-like folk hero, represented the struggle between poor rural Irish Australians and the repressive British ruling class during and after transportation.
The hero's name is an acronym of his task: Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class, thus WALL-E.
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