Word: bravado
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...that they get away with it. Limbaugh has 20 million listeners. Hyde is the Chairman of the International Relations Committee. And Bennett was recently invited by the Republican Club to speak at Harvard. The party never even considered cutting Arnold loose. It all comes back to a kind of bravado built into the collective psyche of the American right wing, something I like to call the Dan Burton Principle. You may know Dan Burton as a senior Republican Congressman from my state, Indiana. In the 1990s he announced on the floor of the House of Representatives his certainty that Vince...
...time to fulfill your Core requirements after you’ve set your concentration—why load up on Core classes your first year at Harvard when you have the unique chance to explore? Don’t be fooled by professors who parade the stage with bravado and with a joke at every turn. Once Siegfried and Roy pack up the show, you’ll still be left with the reading, exams and papers that will define the course. And despair not if economics or government is your calling. Those who wind up in large concentrations find...
Today—as fear of terrorism leads Harvard and other universities to grapple with renewed challenges to academic freedom—the president’s bravado masks a position that has been cautious and consistent with Harvard’s historic reluctance to oppose prevailing political winds...
...Martin Bell story satisfies the learned reader as much as the nuances of Nabokov. Dave De Remer’s mathematical-like precision and dedication to perfection in writing is reminiscent of the intricately insane, yet precise rhythms of Stravinsky. A Rahul Rohatgi column exudes the playful and entertaining bravado of Figaro’s boastful aria in Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville...
...role in the Oct. 12 bombings that left 202 people dead, he showed no remorse. Instead, he raised his manacled hands in defiance and shouted, "Allahu Akbar (God is great)." Then came a chilling warning: "After Riyadh," he vowed, "there will be more." It may have been the angry bravado of a man who knows he may soon face the death penalty, but Samudra?accused of being the operational commander of the Bali bombings?is not the only one predicting further violence. A chorus of intelligence agents, diplomats, terrorism experts and police investigators are warning that the next...