Word: brashly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fleet Streeters last week were chattering like a treeful of English sparrows over the supersuccess story of a bird they all knew when. Only eight months ago brash Frank Owen, back from the wars, had gone to work as a high-priced (around $40,000 a year), once-a-week columnist for Lord & Lady Rothermere's London Daily Mail. Now he had been named its editor...
Unlike the other brash new Houses, Adams is an aggregation of two old and gaudy student apartment dwellings and one new structure that shelters the library and dining hall, all inter-connected by an elaborate tunnel system. The swimming pool, and adjacent sun deck, are hold-overs from the days when the West-merly and Randolph wings were part of the fabulous Gold Coast...
Leonard Bernstein, brilliant, brash young (28) man of U.S. music, triumphed in a ticklish test. In Manhattan he led Dr. Serge Koussevitzky's Boston Symphony Orchestra through a short but arduous young man's program: Symphony No. 7 in C Major (which Schubert wrote at 31), Le Sacre du Printemps, which Stravinsky wrote at 30. It was the first time that 72-year-old Serge Koussevitzky had ever let a guest conduct his Boston Orchestra for a whole concert in New York. Carnegie Hall was so packed that even Pianist Jose Iturbi had to stand...
...great snowball battle involving thousands of men takes place in the Confederate Army's winter camp, with "generals and colonels riding about everywhere amidst the thickest fighting, cheering on their men." General Lee, who left his headquarters to watch the goings on, "was struck several times." ¶ A brash Yankee prisoner, brought up for interrogation, pulls hair out of the tail of Jackson's horse. When Jackson demands to know why, the prisoner explains that each hair is worth a dollar in New York. Mild, modest Jackson, victor of a dozen battles, blushes at the compliment like...
Listeners who can bear with such brash trash are rewarded with a program as carefully arranged (generally by musicianly Mrs. Robbins) as a symphony orchestra's. During dinnertime, from 6:30 to 7, there is "gastric plastic"-soft, slow stuff; for the last hour the show gets hot with blues, boogie, chamber-music jazz, and jazz antiques. And at 9 p.m., when the last "fetching etching" has been sent, Robbins dreamily concludes: "This is your professor of thermodynamics taking a tacit for 24. We're clearing the joint of counterpoint, but we'll be back next black...