Word: brashness
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...every noirish number they perform, yet the final product of both bands is undoubtedly raw rock music. Strip away overproduced backup and the extra three minutes in synthesized pop interludes, and honest songs which speak with the frankness of a genuine friend remain. And though the Stones epitomize the brash attitudes of these bands, Mick Jagger’s irreverence and self-important strut remind me of an often forgotten mantra at Harvard: take yourself less seriously. Alas, it is a mantra that I also often forget...
...look back at the 1960s, for instance, it's obvious that decade alone could provide 80; almost everything changed during those tumultuous years. America entered the decade as a young, brash superpower and left it chastened by the stout resistance of Ho Chi Minh's fighters in Vietnam and shaken by the deep divide over the war among its citizens at home. On the domestic front, women, gays and lesbians and young people joined blacks on the ramparts to press for their own liberation. Popular culture turned around so far and so fast that it became known as the counterculture...
...music inspired youngsters to fight that oppressive regime." Zimbabwe is independent now, he says, "but the struggle is not yet won." In a land where most trickles of dissent are quickly dammed, Zimbabwe's two musical legends sing on and sing out like floods. They have different styles - the brash Mapfumo is more head-on political; Mtukudzi, the soft-spoken storyteller, prefers parables. But their songs are variations on a common theme - building a great Zimbabwe. While Mugabe jets around the world, these two musicians rebuke and encourage the people back home. Protest songs may have largely died...
...time Watson arrived in Cambridge in the fall of 1951, the brash and brilliant 23-year-old was obsessed with DNA. He had originally set out to become a naturalist (since childhood, he had had an interest in birds), but during his third year at the University of Chicago, Watson read a book titled What Is Life?, by Erwin Schrodinger, a founder of quantum physics. Stepping boldly outside his field of expertise, Schrodinger argued that one of life's essential features is the storage and transmission of information--that is, a genetic code that passes from parent to child...
...have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood." James Watson's mischievous opening line of The Double Helix raised many eyebrows at the time, but even Crick wouldn't quarrel with it now. Still brash and outspoken at 86, even without the booming laugh that once echoed through Cambridge's Cavendish lab, Crick has no reason for modesty. In the years since their discovery of the double helix, Crick, unlike Watson, has continued to do significant research, mostly by pondering big--and often controversial--theoretical questions rather than by toiling in the lab. Says his longtime colleague and fellow...