Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...direction it is heading in is well exemplified by the Washington Post. Ask A.M. Rosenthal, the Times's executive editor, to name the best American papers and he will tell you. "The Times-space-the Washington Post -space-and then the others." The Post's executive editor, brash Ben Bradlee, agrees, although he thinks his own paper in some ways better. Bradlee envies the Times its careful editing, its good desk work, its "cruising speed." But he also finds the Times "too constipated...
...releases don't lie. "Here to Stay," a Blue Note re-issue featuring Freddie Hubbard, goes far to proving that the old Hubbard, the just-breaking-in-brash-young Hubbard, could do things that the more esteemed Hubbard could not even understand now. This album gives you the best of Hubbard and some terrific tenor sax by Jimmy Heath and Wayne Shorter. Cedar Walton shows why he is still one of the most under-rated pianists in his smooth accompaniement. The album is fortunate to have "Hub Cap", a long unavailable cut featuring Hubbard, Heath, and Philly Joe Jones, among...
Departing from her usual practice of zinging brash, hostile questions at world leaders, Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci has turned philosopher-novelist. Her new book, Letter to a Child Never Born, to be published in English next month by Simon & Schuster, is the monologue of a nameless, husbandless professional delivered to her unborn child. The baby dies in the womb, but not before its mother probes her own motives for childbearing and the infant's right to be born. "This is a story about a doubt, the biggest of all-whether or not to bring a human being into...
There is, however, still some reason for optimism. Vance will be a softspoken Secretary of State--not a brash individualist in the style of Kissinger--and thus it appears that Carter intends to be his own man in foreign policy. Carter's campaign positions on Chile, on Southern Africa and on an open foreign policy, along with Vance's stated intention to work closely with Congress, may mean that the course of American foreign policy will take a progressive turn, the unfortunate symbolic significance of the Vance appointment notwithstanding...
...plot is coming true for Sylvester ("Sly") Stallone, 30, a brash, genial bit-actor who wrote the script Rocky in three days, and held out against the producers, James Caan and Burt Reynolds, to star in it himself. Jaded preview audiences are giving it ovations, and much of Hollywood is assuming that star and movie will be up for Oscars next year. "I can't recall such excitement about a new movie and a new star since maybe Giant and James Dean," gloats United Artists Boss Mike Medavoy. Says TV's Norman Lear: "That movie sent me through...