Word: brashly
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McGovern's candidacy must be rated as a brash swim against a powerful tide. Aside from Muskie's numerous advantages-including national recognition and a mid-party stance-there are other problems for the shy-looking plainsman. What his admirers regard as a pleasing, low-key image comes across to others as a lack of dynamism and popular appeal that could be fatal. His showing in polls last year was poor. A move by Ted Kennedy would probably eclipse him. Then there are the other Senate prospects: Humphrey, Birch Bayh, Henry Jackson and Harold Hughes, who form...
When conservative Republican Senators talked about challenging Pennsylvania's highly independent Hugh Scott as minority leader, Dole was one of the few who were eager to run against him-a brash notion for a newcomer. He has promised to vote for Tennessee's Howard Baker, 45, if Baker tries to push Scott aside when the new Senate convenes this month. Scott, of course, resents Dole. In spite of four hours of talks between them last week, Scott still sharply opposed Dole's selection as chairman...
...year sentence for a restaurant holdup when a prison chaplain tried to channel his ferocious aggressions into boxing. Under the guidance of the mob, he won all but one of his first 34 matches and in 1962 took the heavyweight title from Floyd Patterson. "The Big Bear" lost to brash young Cassius Clay in 1964 when he failed to answer the seventh-round bell and a year later lost to Clay again in a 102-second title bout in which he was felled by a "phantom" righthand punch that many ringside observers thought not strong enough to be a knockout...
...virtues of another. This is only fair, since Love and Fame is an autobiography. In it, Berryman traces his life from Columbia and Cambridge through an asylum to riches, reputation and religion. The book is in sections, each a stage of his life, and the poetry corresponds, starting brash and young, ending old and mellow...
...book progresses, it becomes clear that this is a deliberate effect. The poetry about his undergraduate life is brash because it is undergraduate poetry, and Berryman a brash undergraduate, as he explains: "(My phantasy precisely at twenty: / to satisfy at once all Barnard and Smith / and have enough left over for Miss Gibbs's girls...