Word: brash
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...there was a rule forbidding candidates to pester the University's top administrators. But, ignorant of this, the story goes, Roosevelt approached Eliot and asked him how he was going to vote in the 1900 presidential election. The legend has several variations, all of which glorify F.D.R. as a brash, bright young man who charms the story from Eliot through sheer daring...
...there an international crisis? Stalin was slow to commit Russia to foreign adventures, slower still to back down once he had committed Soviet prestige. Nikita Khrushchev with one brash threat against Turkey had launched a war scare that set the whole world's nerves on edge. Last week, bouncing into a reception at (of all places) the Turkish embassy, he called the crisis off between gulps of champagne: "Let him be damned who wants war. There will...
...most incongruous place in America to stage a rodeo. There is almost complete antithesis between the society capable of producing such a masculine affair as a rodeo and that of the Harvard-dominated Athens of America. Madison Square Garden is bad enough, but at least New York is pushy, brash, and gaudy...
Sinerama. Though barely old enough to vote, brash, nightclub-pallid John J. Miller is precocious enough to be Broadway's most scurrilous keyhole peeper. For Manhattan's National Enquirer (circ. 119,055), a Sunday tabloid ("The World's Liveliest Paper") that caters to subway society with a churnful of cheesecake, a flutter of racing tips and leering feature stories (LANA TURNER: A GIRL NEEDS MORE THAN A BOSOM), Miller writes what is probably the yeastiest scandal column printed anywhere. Besides his own bylined sinerama each week, thick-set ("six feet when I stand up straight") John Miller...
...insufficient rehearsal time. E. G. Marshall, as the Rev. Anderson, gave us another example of his skill in a character-type role. Felicia Montealegre, as his wife, did her captivating best with an absurdly implausible role. Kevin McCarthy was exuberantly athletic and flery in the leading role of the brash and blasphemous wayward son Dick Dudgeon. Martyn Green relished his brief appearance in act three as the sly General Burgoyne; and Muriel Berkson, Edward Finnegan and John Heldabrand provided excellent support. The outdoor theatre had one great advantage: when Dick was about to be hanged (see cut above), the Reverend...