Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pollock followed his canvases to Italy, exhibited them in private galleries in Venice and Milan. Italian critics tended to shrug off his shows. Only one, brash young (23) Critic Bruno Alfieri of Venice, took the bull by the horns...
...guarded by all manner of intellectual spears, deadfalls and barriers. Even the scientists' imperfect understanding of the strange, violent and orderly ways of the stars and the galaxies requires a mastery of nearly every known technique of physics and mathematics. To assail the defenses of cosmology requires versatile, brash and preferably young...
...declined to send anything to the show, might have conveyed more with a quiet little sketch of either the chicken or the rat. Yet Paris gallerygoers, bored stiff with disciples of past masters, were welcoming Lorjou's rebellion last week by beating a path to his big, brash canvas...
...likable sort and he had a kind of brash courage. He had challenged Taft when better-known and more prudent men had declined to take the chance. And in some respects, he was not altogether to be sneezed at. He had held the auditor's office for 14 years; in 1948, when Harry Truman was winning Ohio by a scant 7,107 votes, Joe Ferguson won re-election by 291,887-the biggest majority a Democrat ever got in the state...
...Rome's Communist L'Unitá, sneers at twelve-tone theories ("It's no different from boxing, except in the ring you count only to ten"), prefers to follow Moscow-dictated formulas for "non-decadent" music. The first and last movements of his Resistance Symphony were brash and hackneyed enough to please the most fastidious commissar. But in the soft-spoken second movement and the effervescent scherzo, Zafred's melodic sense and Latin high spirits almost rattled the composition off its one-track party line...