Word: braved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first speaker of the evening, Dennett said that there is no brave new world.' "The same actions of practical politics that can be found in Boston today, can be seen on every hand on a larger scale in international affairs," said Dennett who is director of the World Peace Foundation...
...Brave New World, Aldous Huxley created a repulsively antiseptic future world in which everything was done scientifically by push buttons and chemistry. Last week, as over 100,000 people trooped through Manhattan's Grand Central Palace at the National Business Show, first since 1941, it appeared that the pushbutton world had already closed in on businessmen...
...have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. . . . And yet I think it best for you to know that ... I am not quite satisfied with you. I believe you to be a brave and skilful soldier, which, of course, I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession, in which you are right...
...among the Ruins. Gaiety tried to make a brave comeback in another once gay city. The center of Munich, one of the most beautiful of Europe's medieval monuments, is a heap of bombed rubble, but last week Müncheners eagerly jumped aboard bicycles, cars and trains bound to suburban Riems. Reason: horse racing was back. The scene at the track was almost like old days. The horses' names had been changed to others more in keeping with the spirit of the times: Bombe (Bomb) had become Bonne Chance; Offensivgeist (The Spirit of the Offensive) had become...
...hero of Brave New World"] is offered . . . life in Utopia, or the [abnormal] life of a primitive .. . insanity on the one hand and lunacy on the other. . . . If I were now to rewrite the book, I would offer a third alternative . . . the possibility of sanity . . . in a community of exiles and refugees.*... Economics would be decentralist and Henry-Georgian, politics Kropotkinesque and cooperative. Science and technology would be used as though, like the Sabbath, they had been made for man. . . . Religion would be the conscious and intelligent pursuit of man's Final End . . . the transcendent Godhead...