Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When conservative Republican Senators talked about challenging Pennsylvania's highly independent Hugh Scott as minority leader, Dole was one of the few who were eager to run against him-a brash notion for a newcomer. He has promised to vote for Tennessee's Howard Baker, 45, if Baker tries to push Scott aside when the new Senate convenes this month. Scott, of course, resents Dole. In spite of four hours of talks between them last week, Scott still sharply opposed Dole's selection as chairman...
...virtues of another. This is only fair, since Love and Fame is an autobiography. In it, Berryman traces his life from Columbia and Cambridge through an asylum to riches, reputation and religion. The book is in sections, each a stage of his life, and the poetry corresponds, starting brash and young, ending old and mellow...
...book progresses, it becomes clear that this is a deliberate effect. The poetry about his undergraduate life is brash because it is undergraduate poetry, and Berryman a brash undergraduate, as he explains: "(My phantasy precisely at twenty: / to satisfy at once all Barnard and Smith / and have enough left over for Miss Gibbs's girls...
...only side, of course. When Trudeau first ran for Prime Minister three years ago, he was regarded by many Canadians as something of an enfant terrible; brash, controversial, a dilettantish leftist who had even visited Communist China. But gradually, he oozed his way to the core of the political establishment, promising the nation that he would deal with Quebec's blossoming separatist movement in a way that would unify Canada, not rend it apart...
...elsewhere. Boumedienne is the senior revolutionary surviving Nasser, but Algeria is more North African than Middle Eastern, somewhat remote from the center of the conflict. Libya's Gaddafi may consider himself a successor, but he is too new, too brash and too untested for other Arab leaders to accept him. Saudi Arabia's Feisal, as keeper of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, has long dreamed of claiming Arab leadership on religious grounds. But Feisal's government is so medieval that few young Arabs would follow him. Guerrilla Leader Yasser Arafat rules no country and thus lacks a true...