Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Real Loud." When Welk and his accordion first came out of Strasburg. N. Dak. (pop. 800), his music was brash and noisy. A farm boy of Alsatian descent (he still has a faint Germanic accent absorbed from his parents), he learned to play "real loud" at barn dances. One of his fellow musicians used to protect himself from the Welk blare by putting cotton in his ears. Welk toured with small combos around Yankton...
...like segregation, he becomes caustic and impatient in defense of militant liberalism. "Why should the under-dog be patient while he gets kicked in the teeth?" he demands. "We don't need caution so much as sound reasoning and the courage to apply it." This impatience with conservatism appears brash to critics who hear him debate. Similarly, the moral tone of some of Schlesinger's magazine articles has reinforced the myth about his smugness...
Even in staid English provincial circles, nature has a way of filling marital vacuums. Frankie, the goodlooking young piano player at the local cinema, is just brash enough to make a pass at Constance, even though Melford is by now sure to become the next mayor of the town. A kiss on a snowy night, and Constance is done for. Soon she and Frankie are meeting in alleys, in old mills and, come spring, splashing idyllically in secret pools. Melford, no different from other husbands in a like fix, is naturally the last to know. What is more, he does...
...with an M-G-M option to produce as well as score five to ten musicals in seven years. For his first, a version of Anna Christie to be called A Saint She Ain't, he has written 16 songs, which he characterizes as "very lofty." Brash Tunesmith Merrill believes cliches are the secret of pop success; he keeps notebooks full of them, from which came his first click, If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd 've Baked a Cake (1950). Bachelor Merrill's income (currently $300,000) does not depend on inspiration: Mambo...
From this house, lent by an admirer and crammed with marble cherubs, potted palms and framed needlepoint, this brash young man directs a dedicated army of 800,000 followers from Calais to Algiers. By lifting a phone, he can organize a rally in a provincial town 400 miles away, have the region plastered with posters in 48 hours, dispatch two, ten or 20 Assembly Deputies there as if they were errand boys. Every day, new memberships pour into his new offices in downtown Paris, new readers subscribe to his two newspapers...