Word: brashly
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...brash, but also somewhat reticent. At first Griffin wants only to gush about the upstanding young van drivers he teaches at PBHA but eventually opens up about his other interests. He is a book collector and former engineer who has taught at Al-Hikma University in Baghdad. Griffin collects Celtic-language books and books on the Irish in America. Two years ago he donated 3,800 volumes on the Irish in America to the National Library in Ireland and was honored at a ceremony in Dublin...
...agree with the need to increase airport security, but since Sept. 11, people have been making some brash claims. They claimed irony is dead, which is sort of true. Richard Irony, age 93, passed away in his home on Sept. 15 while watching an infomercial for a food dehydrator guaranteed to help one live until his or her 94th birthday. Cause of death: consumption of food with too much water in it. Regardless, irony—the concept—is still alive and well...
RESIGNING. J. CRAIG VENTER, 55, brash maverick scientist who raced to decipher the human genome and goaded competitors to do the same; as president of Celera Genomics, the firm he helped found in 1998. Conflict over the future of Celera, as it moves from selling gene information to developing drugs, sparked the departure...
...CLUB Berlin's mix of sentiment and a brash, welcoming wit made him the favorite composer of the people - but maybe not of other top composers. I wonder if he was ever considered a member of their club, of whether he considered himself one. Oh, they were all chummy. Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein were his producers on "Annie Get Your Gun"; he took over from Kern, who had died suddenly. (Twenty years earlier, Rodgers was not so pleased when, at the request of the star Belle Baker, Berlin had written a song for her to interpolate into an otherwise...
...merger has gone off with surprising smoothness, but old Time Warner hands have occasionally bristled at their AOL colleagues. "Some people in the company felt like the brash new kids from Dulles were coming in, overriding our borders and changing our culture," says Parsons. One continuing concern is whether AOL Time Warner will respect the editorial integrity of CNN and the Time Inc. magazines and fund them adequately. Levin, who often invokes TIME magazine founder Henry Luce, says he regards Parsons as someone who has "the Lucean thing about journalistic independence...