Word: brashly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York City. So, it would seem, are buildings. For years, the 102-story Empire State Building dominated the skyline, tallest of the tall in a city of proud skyscrapers. Then, last year, the twin towers of the World Trade Center rose eight stories higher. Feeling dwarfed by these brash new comers, Robert W. Jones, vice president of Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, the original Empire architects, reflected: "Here's a building that's been the tallest building for 40 years, and now it's no longer the tallest." As Jones tells it:"Almost with tongue in cheek, I thought...
...director, but if I thought I was, I wouldn't be on boards," she insists. Over the years she has joined the boards of A T & T, Kraftco and Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance as well as G.M. An austere person who finds Women's Lib a little brash, Cleary has nonetheless appointed women to one executive post out of ten at her bank. She is the only female on First Wisconsin's board, however...
...illustrative. John Shaft, a black private detective who enforces the laws that repress much of the black community, is rewarded for his efforts with a fabulous penthouse, beautiful women, and lots of money. Serious black activists who are desperately trying to help the community, however, are portrayed as brash and fumbling idiots who live in coldwater walk-up tenements. The message is clear: be a self-centered hustler and maybe one day you can move to Park Avenue: deal seriously with the struggle for liberation and you are condemned to the ghetto...
...flossy Four Seasons, took over as president just in time to face more problems. The recession and the trend toward more informal dining, combined with Levin's reluctance to lower the restaurant's standards, took their toll. Last week, almost simultaneously with the opening of a brash new competitor named Jimmy's, Pavilion closed its doors...
...losing battle with a heart ailment, the aging master enters a final match that takes six months to complete. Along the way he endures adjournments, squabbles over the ground rules and three changes of venue. In the end, the master's game falters, and he loses to a brash opponent half his age. Not for him the shadow of Siberia; his art having dwindled, the master also dwindles and dies a year later...