Word: brashly
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Applying Principles. Wordy, brash, grandiose, Cosell has a natural gift for annoying, but at least his approach is in finitely more lively than the usual golly-gee-you're-terrific sport interview on TV. Explains Cosell: "I'm an electronic first. I've gotten where I've gotten in the world of sport just by applying the prin ciples of journalism." He does get his share of scoops; he was the first, for ex ample, to report Wilt Chamberlain's move from the Philadelphia 76ers to the Los Angeles Lakers. But it is more...
...engineer by training, Sánchez had worked for 30 years as Muñoz's closest adviser and protege, but as Governor he betrayed a lack of political savvy. His sometimes brash young assistants inevitably angered P.D.P. regulars accustomed to Muñoz's paternalistic style. Sánchez sought to broaden the party's base and wean it from Muñoz's ubiquitous influence. But Muñoz, like a Latin Lear, proved less than willing to see his rule pass to the next generation...
...whose products had received Truffaut's hardest knocks. After they were married, Truffaut continued his criticism, this time at the family dinner table. In exasperation, Papa Morgenstern challenged his son-in-law to make films as good as the ones he criticized-and provided enough money for the brash young man to make a fool of himself...
...which he has yet to shed. As his brother's political "no-man," as an aide for several months to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, and as the interrogator of labor racketeers for the Senate Rackets Subcommittee, Bob Kennedy picked up a reputation for a sort of brash, hard-driving, often seemingly blind moralism...
Professionally compelled to get the facts, reporters have long resorted to deception. As far back as 1886, a brash young journalist who called herself Nel lie Bly feigned insanity to expose the inhuman conditions in a mental hospital. And in 1919, Herbert Bayard Swope passed himself off as a diplomat, outfitted with cutaway coat and chauffeured limousine, to provide a firsthand account of peace-treaty negotiations at Versailles. Last week, as the result of a National Labor Relations Board decision, the concept of what journalists call "enterprising reporting" was subjected to Government review...