Word: brashly
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...such campaigns represent the bright approach that has recently come to be associated with brash agency newcomers such as Mary Wells or Carl Ally. However, all of these campaigns spun out of the long-established agencies-the ones that were supposed to be drowsing...
...left was expertly sung by U.S. Baritone Carlos Alexander as Prometheus and Australian Mezzo Althea Bridges as the tormented lo. The other singers, obscured by grotesque masks and headdresses, declaimed the drama in incantatory drones, while the orchestra rolled along in seemingly endless ostinato figures or erupted with brash punctuations...
...argue with the power and variety of Bernstein's interpretations, but his gifts are most appropriate to the later symphonies, from the Fifth on, with their careening metaphysics, thorny textures and dramatic contradictions. Bernstein explains that Mahler is "roughhewn and epicene, subtle and blatant, refined, raw, objective, maudlin, brash, shy, grandiose, self-annihilating, confident, insecure." Each symphony is also being released separately, and the Eighth, in particular, is not to be missed, as Bernstein masses his musical forces, in this case, the London Symphony Orchestra, for an impassioned yes to the whole cosmos...
...Bryce in scholarship, Heren offers considerable journalistic value: he provokes Americans into looking outside the framework of favorite myths. But if Americans are not the impulsive, brash upstarts that they themselves and a good deal of the world have taken them to be, just who are they? A notably patient people, Heren believes, infinitely capable of compromise, whose society is less the product of revolutionary fiat than of constant evolutionary adjustments over the years...
...Vietcong to join a coalition government in Saigon. Nor will he ever talk to the Vietcong. A halt of the bombing is out of the question. In other words, the Saigon government thinks that all the feasible means to end the war are nonsensical. Sadly, each of Thieu's brash remarks inevitably draws the American response that the little leader has nothing to worry about...