Word: braved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What better can be said of a writer than that he has a lively style? Even some occasional malice can be forgiven, but in the review of Huxley's new book [Brave New World Revisited-Nov. 17] your reviewer seems to have gone beyond the malicious to the vicious. And I wonder what age would he suggest as appropriate to stop talking about the problem of overpopulation...
...intense reaction comes partly from the different perspective on events as seen by Latin Americans. What to a U.S. citizen might seem a quixotic, comic, futile or irrelevant revolution can be brave, idealistic, tragic or admirable to its courageous participants. The army that is a means of national defense in the U.S. and Europe can be policeman and intermittent government in much of Latin America. To the U.S. reporter, born to a heritage of liberty and democracy, the Latin American, in his political fight for liberty, democracy and economic sufficiency, can seem mercurial, sometimes misguided. To the Latin American, with...
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...Brave New World Revisited, by Aldous Huxley. Fact has caught up with his 1932 horror fiction, argues Huxley, and he, for one, is reappalled...
Beer and coke will be generously ladled out to students eager enough to leave Lamont and to brave the fierce winds of winter which now blow through the once warm streets of Cambridge...