Word: bold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These situations and these possibilities pose a serious problem for hospitals. Inevitably, with more and more bold and venturesome and commendable attempts to rescue the dying, more and more individuals will accumulate in the hospitals of the land, individuals who can be maintained "alive" by extraordinary means, individuals in whom there is no hope of recovery of consciousness, let alone recovery to a functioning, pleasurable existence...
...Congressman, I've always admired your bold and courageous stance on the issues," was how he introduced Wright Patman of Texas, the country's most vociferous advocate of easy money...
This is clearly a technical book, but amateur sailors-the most passionate kind-should be fascinated by the meticulous design plans of some of the finest American sailing ships ever to draw a breeze. Only a bold sense of beauty could have given birth to these craft, but the ingenuity that made them functional is the author's real subject...
Those patrols have been annihilated before. For every bold, experimental foray there are bound to be many ambitious failures or cold, calculated imitations. Still, occasionally, one victory can change the world-or at least the part of it that produces films. Bonnie and Clyde is a conspicuous victory. It has proved to the industry that the "new movie" and "popular success" are not antithetical terms. Hollywood has sometimes acted as if money and art were incompatible. At worst, they can come together in a marriage of convenience. At best, they may even get to like each other...
...described himself as a "no-making-money author." Although he began writing plays in 1918, he had little success in Europe until the 1940s, and U.S. productions have been scanty and unsuccessful. Now Pantagleize, a play Ghelderode wrote in 1929, is seeing Broadway for the first time in a bold, resourceful production that is the opening repertory offering of the APA-Phoenix's current Manhattan season. Ghelderode may at last begin to strike roots in the same theatrical and intellectual soil that has proved hospitable to Beckett, lonesco and Genet...