虚构的鹰

肯·里夫斯
白影

肯·里夫斯(肯·里夫斯)是波士顿大学篮球队的前明星前锋，后来在NBA效力于芝加哥公牛队. 但是当膝伤结束了他的职业生涯, 里夫斯放弃了职业运动员退役后的大好机会，转而成为洛杉矶一所高中的篮球教练，他的前BC队友是该校的校长. Such is the setup for the influential CBS drama 白影, 只播了三季, 1978年至1981年, 但几十年后，人们还记得它是第一个解决种族等问题的网络系列之一, 贫困, 不平等, 以及性别认同.

里夫斯, 由演员肯·霍华德扮演(他自己在阿默斯特学院打过大学篮球), takes over as coach at the fictional Carver High School, 才发现，他的球员, 他们大多是有色人种和穷人, 对特权阶层缺乏信任, 白人前职业运动员. 但里夫斯是个未知数. Suspicious of authority himself, he is able to find common ground with the players. 有时，这意味着提供我们在电视剧中期待的那种指导和指导. But sometimes it means something more surprising, such as protecting his players’ dignity 和 humanity in a harsh world. 在一个难忘的场景中, 《电子游戏正规平台》的一名玩家在课余时间做杂货装袋工，却因为把顾客的产品放在袋子的底部而不是顶部而遭到经理的严厉批评. After first demonstrating that the groceries were actually bagged correctly, Coach 里夫斯 throws the bag at the manager. 当恶霸没能抓住它时, 在过程中磕磕绊绊, 里夫斯扬起眉毛，观察着, “You got bad h和s 和 your legs are going.”

里夫斯的教练生涯始于卡弗高中校长吉姆·威利斯(在试播集中由演员杰森·伯纳德饰演，在电视剧中由埃德·伯纳德饰演)发现里夫斯在联合中心练习投篮, 公牛队的主场. 威利斯找到里夫斯是因为他知道他的前BC队友的NBA生涯正在衰退. Willis tells 里夫斯 that he’s “over the hill,” 和 then makes his pitch for him to take the job at Carver.

“薪水多少??里夫斯问道.

“更少，”威利斯回答.

“少于什么?”?”

“比你能养活的还少.”

“That,” 里夫斯 responds with a smile, “makes it irresistible.”

里夫斯接受了这份工作, 当然, 这让他的妹妹质疑他不像其他过气的篮球运动员那样追求电视演出的决定. 但李维斯, 就像很多BC毕业生一样, 被服务的机会所吸引, in this instance coaching for almost nothing at an underperforming high school. 然而，就像通常的情况一样，教练会经历一个动荡的过渡期. 他第一个星期就惹毛了, especially after putting his h和s on a rebellious player named Hayward. 一位愤怒的学校官员向威利斯校长抱怨新教练:“他太自大了, 讽刺的, 和 he doesn’t know a damn thing about education.”

“You’re right, on all three counts,” Willis replies.

“那你为什么雇佣他??”

“他是这项工作的合适人选.”

随着这部剧越来越受欢迎, bbc被里夫斯的性格和他与大学的关系深深吸引, in 1980, it hosted a “White Shadow Day” 和 brought in Howard for the occasion. 里夫斯, 虚构的人物, 可能不是真正的BC校友, but according to the broadcasting legend Lesley Visser ’75, 谁主持了庆祝活动, the man who played him embodied 电子游戏软件. “Ken Howard fulfilled all the requirements,” Visser says. “BC的学者，他很聪明. We have a tradition of athletics, he was a great basketball player. 很多时候, you see an actor try to speak the language of sports 和 it doesn’t work, 但这对他来说是很自然的.”

在节目的最后一集, 1981年播出, 里夫斯 checks in with some of his former players, 谁已经进入了成人生活. Hayward is in college 和 considering law school, 而另一名球员则在一家自杀预防中心接听电话，找到了自己的定位. 但是卡佛大学的校友比赛蒙上了一层阴影，因为里夫斯和球员们想起了一位缺席的、受人爱戴的前队友，他最近被一颗流弹杀死了——他是一起抢劫案的无辜旁观者. “他只是在错误的时间出现在错误的地点，”副校长告诉里夫斯.

“有时,” 里夫斯 offers in a rare moment of sentimentality, “I forget how much I like doing this job…. I forget that we really are accomplishing something here.”

弗兰克·加尔文
判决结果

“The weak,” exclaims 弗兰克·加尔文 in the 1982 film 判决结果, “the weak have got to have somebody to fight for them.“他似乎不是显而易见的选择, but that somebody turns out to be 加尔文 himself, 他是一名酗酒的律师(保罗·纽曼饰演)，以全班第二名的成绩毕业于不列颠哥伦比亚省法学院, 但现在在边缘练习. 他是那种倒霉的救护车追求者，他会在讣告页面上搜索委屈的寡妇，在守灵时把名片递给她们. 但是当高尔文被想要快速而不公正的解决方案的强大利益集团交给案件时, he instead finds himself with an opportunity for redemption. 尽管表面, 加尔文 embodies the distinctly BC blend of determination, 信仰, 和服务.

加尔文, 事实证明, had much in common with the writer who created him, the renowned medical malpractice attorney 和 novelist Barry 里德. 在他的职业生涯中, 里德, 1954年毕业于BC法学院的人, 曾获得克拉伦斯·达罗卓越审判奖，并在美国法律与医学学会和马萨诸塞州审判律师学会担任领导职务. Less known was his work representing the poor. “‘He did a lot of little things 和 never looked to get any credit or acclaim,约瑟夫·穆里根, 里德的前律师合伙人, 告诉 纽约时报. “For the small cases he just wouldn’t take a fee.”

When 里德, who died in 2002, wasn’t practicing law he was writing novels. 判决结果, published in 1980, was just one of several books he authored. 电子游戏软件 figures prominently in its film adaptation, which was nominated for five Academy Awards. 加尔文 keeps his BC diplomas on his office wall, 他的红宝石和金色的等级戒指——旧承诺的微光——在怀疑时刻充当道德的北极星. But more than anything, it’s the spirit of 电子游戏软件 that runs through 判决结果. “如果我们对正义有信心,高尔文向陪审团宣布, “我们只需要相信自己, 公正行事.”

杰克瑞安
各种各样的产品

杰克瑞安 always wanted to be a government agent. 他一次又一次地说，要做到这一点，最可靠的方法就是从电子游戏软件获得学位.

瑞安, 他是著名作家汤姆·克兰西创作的一系列广受欢迎的间谍惊悚小说中的主角, 是一个基本的普通人，用一个有条理的大脑和耶稣会教育的严谨性来取得成功, 在其他地方, 海军陆战队, 华尔街, 和华盛顿. It’s a life he leads ably but reluctantly—瑞安 often reflects, 例如, 他的妻子和孩子, 和 his regret at being absent from their lives due to his work. 许多书的开头都是快乐地坐在办公桌前的瑞安被吸回了线人的世界, 刺客, 和 corrupt foreign leaders that he has previously forsworn.

Clancy’s sophisticated novels spawned a media empire, with 瑞安 being portrayed by such leading men as Alec Baldwin (追捕红色十月号， 1990)，哈里森·福特(爱国者游戏 和 明确和当前的危险(1992年和1994年)，本·阿弗莱克(所有恐惧的总和(2002)，克里斯·派恩 (杰克·瑞安:《电子游戏软件》, 2014), 和, most recently, John Krasinski (the Amazon Prime series 杰克瑞安2018年至今).

瑞安的传记(以及扮演他的演员)可以从一部作品到下一部作品, but one constant is his identification with BC. Listening in frustration to a colleague exercising a faulty “circular” reasoning, 瑞安 muses that the logic course at Yale was “probably an elective.” At 电子游戏软件, he notes, “it had been m和atory.然后在 赤兔 (2002), when 瑞安 和 a colleague are comparing notes on their BC education, 这位同事注意到, we “Jesuit products run the world— we’re just humble about it.”

行动胜于言辞，瑞安默默地同意了，他派小杰克·瑞安(杰克瑞安 Jr .)去.在栗树山学习.