Word: brashly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many of the "frontier" theories offered by Hoyle will be tut-tutted by conservative astronomers, and some will eventually turn out to be wrong. But Hoyle, though brash, is no amateur. He is leading spokesman for "the Cambridge cosmographers," a group of innovators who apply modern mathematics and physics to the problems of the universe...
Some commentators turned away from the glint of gold long enough to isolate a few moral principles. Manhattan's brash Daily News, long the champion of the ruggedest sort of individualism, surprised its readers with an editorial essay in praise of contestants who stop at $32,000: "Practice moderation consistently," urged the News, "and you are very unlikely to go broke, die of overeating or overdrinking, make enemies unnecessarily or make a fool of yourself." The New York Post turned the subject over to its prize pundit, Max Lerner. In a six-article series, Lerner pontificated that "anyone...
...Michigan's brash, young (44) Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams shocked a roomful of political reporters (who do not shock easily) by answering a press-conference question-as to whether President Eisenhower would run again-in this candid manner: "There are so many things that can happen in this life. For example, he's an old man (64). He might die before the campaign begins." While reporters boggled, Soapy went on: "I mean Stevenson or any of us might die before that time. I think that at this early date the situation has not fully jelled. Any number...
...they are loneliest of all in the late watches of the night-when the inebriate becomes sentimental, the salesman paces his hotel room, the insomniac looks through his medicine cabinet. Radio fills the lonely time with all-night music, but television has moved more uncertainly. It has the brash irrelevancies of Steve Allen, the late late movies, the fast-talking pitchman promising a better, lanolin-coated world for $1 down and $1 a week...
Harvard's Pitirim Sorokin, 66, a Russian artisan's son who became the first professor of sociology at the University of St. Petersburg and later at Harvard. Brash, brilliant young Sorokin ran away from his father at the age of nine ("My father was good man, except when he was drunk"), managed to get himself enough education to enter the University of St. Petersburg. A social revolutionary, he was arrested three times by the Czarist police, served as one of Kerensky's secretaries, was later arrested three more times by the Communists. Exiled in 1922, he soon...