Word: brashly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been salvaged. Several times, he comes close to saying something significant--about the player-agent alliance that is presently causing so much friction between labor and management, about the way a pro hockey team functions internally over the course of a season, about the contrast between aging veteran and brash rookie. But he prevents himself from covering any of these in depth by saddling himself with the hokey Love Story angle...
Roadwork is not an important musical statement, nor is it carefully crafted artistry. It is instead a loud, brash and bold experiment. Sometimes it falls, sometimes it works. We can do nothing but hope for more...
...young Trotsky, however, who cuts the heroic figure that may appeal most to contemporary audiences. This is the Trotsky to emerge from the pages of his own early work 1905 -brash, scornful, ambitious but as yet uncorrupted by the necessities of maintaining power. The book was first published in 1909 as Russia in the Revolution, then revised and widely translated under its present title...
...Brash, bright and bent on getting ahead, Donald H. Parsons gave up practicing law and went into banking when he was scarcely 30 years old. In the 1960s, with astonishing speed, he put together a financial empire with $3 billion in assets that centered on a string of 19 banks, most of them in Michigan. But the Parsons Group foundered during the 1970 recession. Parsons was all but wiped out and forced out of banking. Even under new management, the flagship of his operation, Detroit's Bank of the Commonwealth (B.O.C.), continued to sink into deeper trouble. Last week...
...apparent leader before the balloting began last week was Amintore Fanfani, 63, four times Premier and most recently president of the Senate. A short (he claims to be 5 ft. 6 in.), brusque, brash former economics professor, he is the candidate of the Christian Democrats, the largest party in the governing center-left coalition. Should he falter, former Premier Aldo Moro is more than willing to replace him. Moro, also a Christian Democrat, has visibly moved from the center toward the left of late, even as Fanfani was moving from left to center. Fanfani's other chief rival...