Word: brashly
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What strikes the brash newcomer is not only the new and different philosophies; it is not even the fact that he must re-measure the world about him with the new yard-stick of values presented to him by the University; what is most novel, and disturbing, is that he must re-measure himself. If the Jewish student has not gained firmly established roots, if he has not created a self-image, the process can be disconcerting...
...after holding hands with his girl Maggie (as far as sex goes, the book is innocent enough to be read by a bishop, or a postmaster general). Everything is lengthily reported, but none of it matters much. Perhaps the trouble is that young Duluoz does not matter. As a brash, noisemaking ten-year-old, he lived in a world full of wonders; as a teenager, he seems gross and unimaginative. Maggie Cassidy was taken, like most of Kerouac's recently published books, from an apparently limitless attic filled before On the Road appeared. For the literary taxidermist, such finds...
...Alcoa Theater (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Comedian Jack Carson, as a brash wildcatter, struggles with an even wilder urchin...
What strikes the brash newcomer is not only the new ideas and different philosophies; it is not even the fact that he must re-measure the world about him with the new yardstick of values presented to him by the University; what is most novel, and disturbing, is that he must remeasure himself. If the Jewish student has not finally firmly established roots, if he has not created a self-image, the process can be disconcerting...
...that time, brash Bill Proxmire had had about enough. He took his seat-while Johnson delivered a devastating last word. The best living example of a Senate leader's problems, he said, had "just sat down...