Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...place is secret service headquarters. The sunless corridors, the peculiar amalgam of research, bureaucratic fatigue and hostility are brilliantly rendered. Power struggles become palpable: Smiley's conversations brim with silences and ambiguities; throwaway lines can hang a man, and one quiet meeting results in a British victory over some brash "cousins" in the CIA. Cruelty abounds, but so does guilt. Smiley believes implicitly in the need for clandestine agents, but he knows that his scholarly gains will soon be absorbed by his dreaded allies?the Americans...
Since he knew he was not the yachting Establishment's choice, the triumph on its merits was particularly sweet. And Terrible Ted Turner, the bold, brash captain of the revamped 12-meter yacht Courageous, had the champagne ready in Newport when George Hinman, head of the six-member selection committee, came to tell him and his crewmen the news: "Gentlemen, you have been selected to defend the America's Cup." Skipper Turner, 38, a Georgian who owns the Atlanta Braves and the Atlanta Hawks (TIME, Aug. 8), had won the right to try to retain...
...church. The threat brought immediate results. Several of the stars immediately announced that they were reneging on their deal with Packer, and others were having second thoughts. At week's end Packer had not admitted defeat, but it began to look as if cricket would successfully weather his brash effort to inject show biz into its Edwardian reverie...
Excited by his new interest, Trivers borrowed money and went back to Harvard as a special student in biology, gaining his Ph.D. and a faculty appointment in 1972. Zoologist Ernest Williams, one of his teachers, describes him as a brash, brilliant student who turned in papers with slashing attacks on well-known biologists, some of whom have not forgotten?or forgiven. Brashness is still part of Trivers' character. He derided an anthropologist (who, incidentally, admires his work) as too old to understand the implications of sociobiology. The anthropologist was then...
...repulsive." But he later became a popular teacher, first at Columbia, then for 22 years at the University of Chicago, where he and Robert Hutchins set out in 1930 to revolutionize American undergraduate education by teaching the Great Books. While students lionized Adler, senior colleagues attacked him as a brash upstart who advocated a philosophical "return to the Middle Ages...