Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wall Street runs two ways?up and down. This fact was recognized long ago by one of the Street's alltime moguls, J. Pierpont Morgan. When asked by a brash young investor for a forecast about how the market would go, Morgan glared down his generously endowed nose, bristled his mustache, and replied: "It will fluctuate, young man. It will fluctuate...
Personality & Loyalty. Brash, liberal and articulate, Cavanagh took a more cerebral approach, but he failed to read correctly just what he faced, beginning with the opposition of the state Democratic hierarchy. Though both candidates were prolabor and pro-civil rights, Soapy had been helping Negroes and laborers when Cavanagh was in short pants-and they knew it. Cavanagh's 1% city income tax in Detroit proved unpopular, and many Negroes were alienated when he toyed earlier this year with the idea of a "stop-and-frisk law" that would allow police to search suspicious persons. Then, too, there...
...Gauche, immature, graceless, unable to assimilate its squalling minorities, New York is a sad choice for host city to foreign guests. The Feisal fiasco [July 1] should make it clear that this brash, mannerless city is the last place to demonstrate the U.S. at its best...
MAME is more lavish entertainment than outstanding musical, but it looks good and has the brash assurance typical of Broadway when it does something well because it is familiar. Angela Lansbury plays kooky Auntie with gusto...
MAME is more lavish entertainment than great musical, but it looks good and has the brash assurance typical of Broadway when it does something well because it is familiar. Angela Lansbury plays kooky Auntie with gusto...