Word: brashly
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...stage. In school in the Midlands and ever since, he has worked at his profession energetically but not flamboyantly. After six months in repertory in Coventry, he took a job at the Royal Court Theater in London, then landed in John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, the brash, lewd play that brought new life and a new generation to the anemic English stage of the '50s. "It took everybody by the ears," Bates says, "and marked a whole new way of thinking in the British theater...
...urban and cosmopolitan section of New Orleans, he was not the stereotypical Southern Congressman. Though he joined other Southerners in signing a 1956 manifesto opposing school integration, he dramatically came out in favor of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and three years later voted for the open housing law. Brash and at times arrogant, Boggs had a great talent for booming oratory. He thoroughly enjoyed the clubby conviviality of the Congress, but had a high disregard for the tedium of slow-moving House hearings and meetings. He much preferred more sociable activities. His annual May party at his handsome house...
...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...