Word: bravado
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, not having the nerve to say any of that out loud--my internal bravado is always so much wittier than my generally pacifist exterior--I was forced to say, "Please, my friends are in there. I just need to tell them I'm here. I'll come right back out." But he was not convinced. Later, I was accused of ditching my friends. What's up with that...
...course, not having the nerve to say any of that out loud--my internal bravado is always so much wittier than my generally pacifist exterior--I was forced to say, "Please, my friends are in there. I just need to tell them I'm here. I'll come right back out." But he was not convinced. Later, I was accused of ditching my friends. What's up with that...
...pronounced guilty of writingAfrican-American and native African characters outof his works and of racism when he does includethem. And even when Hemingway is not offendinganybody, he has been labeled infantile. Writerslike Tobias Wolff mark their adulthood at thepoint when they cease to be entranced byHemingway's bravado; and perhaps many--like PeterMathiessen, who smugly pronounced the author a"brave coward"--take a certain joy in Hemingway'ssuicide, which proves once and for all that theman was really a posturer, masking fear withmachismo...
...desire," blinds us to individual weakness. According to UHS, 15 percent of undergraduates use mental health services at least once during their college years. According to the National Institutes of Mental Health, about 25 percent of all women and ten percent of all men will suffer from depression. But bravado makes us unwilling to acknowledge that. Consequently, students becomes less willing to share personal failures and listeners less willing to accept them...
...longest, for 50 years, from the time they were students together at Columbia University just after the war. Though Ginsberg's aura toward the end of his life (he died in 1997) suggested Buddhist serenity, Podhoretz remembers him as "arrogant and brash and full of an in-your-face bravado," even a kind of fury. Ginsberg seemed to have a fixation on Podhoretz--possibly because he suspected that Podhoretz had his number as a personality-poet camouflaging mediocrity with an outrageous epater-le-bourgeois program (insanity is sanity; drugs are sacramental; homosexuality is holy; normality is horror). Podhoretz considered Ginsberg...