Word: bravados
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once, during the abortive 1905 revolution, almost as a prank, young Boris rushed out to display "my tuppeny-ha'penny revolutionism which went no further than bravado in the face of a Cossack whip and its blow on the back of a padded coat." He studied law briefly at Moscow, then enrolled as a philosophy major in Germany's University of Marburg under a pudgy intellectual martinet, Professor Hermann Cohen, a disciple of Hegel and Kant. In the Gothic-fairy-tale mountain town of Marburg, with its steeply sloping streets and medieval gables, his first serious love came...
Since the whole thing is a farce, the actors are at their funniest when they parody their own box-office personalities. Bogart attempts a dashing and impossible escape from the Arabs, and his nonsense bravado is great. Lorre, playing a dubious character named Julius O'Hara, intrigues around wonderfully. Lollobrigida is a moody and bosomy Italian who faints often. Robert Morley and the other two con men are in the style of henchmen in The Ladykillers...
...George B. Sohier Prize for 1957-58 has been awaded to Jonathan Kozol '58 for his thesis, "The Metaphysical Bravado of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet...
Jonathan Kozol '58 has been awarded the Winthrop Sargent Prize of $150 for an essay entitled, "The Metaphysical Bravado of Shakespeare's Hamlet," Sargent Kennedy, Secretary of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, announced recently...
...They call themselves Centurians, Demons, Villains, Stonekillers and Sand Street Angels, organize themselves with the precision of military combat teams, with an officer hierarchy (president, war counselor, armorer, etc.). Their code of ethics is a distorted boy's-eye view of the underworld, laced with real touches of bravado and evil that are gleaned from television and the movies-and from relatives who have firsthand experience. They prowl the dark streets, kill and maim one another, dabble in narcotics, drink themselves into a rage with cheap wine called "sneaky pete...