Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members of the Central Committee failed to take up such a pertinent topic as the spreading ferment of discontent in the universities. In Kiev and Azerbaijan, reported the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, students were in an "unhealthy state of mind," and at the Leningrad Technological Institute they indulged in "brash and demagogic remarks" that showed "an effort to ignore completely the undoubted gains of Soviet culture." In Moscow, where university students openly admitted listening to Western radio broadcasts, the youthful audience at a Lenin Library lecture walked out in disgust at the speaker's lame explanations of events in Hungary...
...that Egypt's brash hero-for-hire has unshrewdly mortgaged the Arab world's future to the Russians, perhaps the most concise epilogue to the fateful transaction is A. E. Housman's lament on the demise of another imperceptive youth...
...criticize that issue for pejorative was to miss its point; and this last issue suggests that brash confidence and imagination needn't be limited to scientific work. "When we can seriously entertain the thought of flying to the moon or any other bit of scientific surrealism, why do we bring up that deus ex machina 'impossible. . .necessity' to limit the possibility of living imaginitively...
When Britain's stringy-maned lion of letters, brash Author Colin Wilson, 25, published his 288-page tract, The Outsider (TIME, July 2)-a widely hailed diagnosis of civilization's sickness and a prescription of a new religion to cure it-few had ever heard of him. But Britons have been nearly deafened ever since by Wilson's roaring. Aping the brusque hyperboles of one of his few idols, George Bernard Shaw, Wilson has gone about insulting both hosts and lecture audiences, damning society for its regressive complacency, whimsically denigrating Shakespeare ("a great poet with the mentality...
...Manhattan who inhabit or run in and out of a bohemian garden apartment. There is a mixed-up woman of 30 (Shelley Winters), her mixed-up 18-year-old sister, a mixed-up male teacher of ballet, the sister's mixed-up young hipster admirer, and a brash, cocky intruder who drives a Jaguar, sneers at art, and gets involved with both sisters. Soon Playwright Nash, converting two pair into a full house, makes plain that the stranger is mixed...