Word: bravados
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...direction, a 55th anniversary production of Sir James Barrie's classic fable for both children and adults, Peter Pan. As Peter, who has from Maude Adams to the present always been played for some reason by a woman, Miss Harris was captivatingly pixyish. Eric Portman might have brought more bravado to the traditional double role of the Father and Captain Hook. Ellis Rabb provided an unbeatably riotous Smee, an elaboration of the Starveling he did in Midsummer Night's Dream at Stratford a year ago. The production employed the original music of John Crooke, which Barrie himself had termed "delightful...
Last week, after first granting and then withholding approval, the Kansas City council voted unanimously to bar an emergency fund drive. It issued a bravado-packed statement that "the finest and best medical attention would be furnished by the municipality"-at taxpayers' expense. It ordered the city's health department to make sure that all needy patients get treated at the city's General Hospital. But this left a lot of loose ends. Many patients were being treated in private hospitals-and with the high costs of polio care, almost every family becomes needy...
Eric Portman makes an excellent Captain Hook, thought one might wish that he occasionally played with more bravado, since the humor in this role is so meaty and the character is reminiscent of Malvolio in Twelfth Night. (The scene on the Pirate Ship, where Hook is duped by Peter and the orphan children is particularly reminiscent of the Garden Scene where Malvolio is duped by Sir Toby and his cohorts.) Mr. Portman, nevertheless, brings his own special qualities to the role...
...show of bravado by Paraguayan students brought that country back under jackboot dictatorship...
Emboldened by the new pact with the U.S., Iran's government radio and press sassed Moscow back with a bravado unknown in earlier days. To charges that Iranian oil is being exploited by outsiders, Radio Teheran tartly urged Moscow: "Liberate the enslaved Rumanian workers from the claws of Soviet soldiers and hand back the oil to the Rumanian nation. Moscow thinks Iran is a second Rumania, where people have but one freedom-that of dying...