Word: braved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conventions of western fiction (by now as stylized as a Flathead bluejay dance), but the best of these ten tales of a lost frontier echo Bret Harte or Mark Twain in the West. There is the sentimentality and pawky humor by which all oldtimers of all frontiers recall the brave days. Storyteller Johnson's memories are authentic; she grew up in Whitefish, Mont. with wide ears for tall tales. Her characters are primitive and romantic, as they probably were in life, and she has a surprising quality of humor. One of her best stories, I Woke Up Wicked...
...Brave & Tragic. The nation soon grew accustomed to having its sons disappear into the woods for mysterious campfire powwows, struggle with all sorts of exotic knots, make fire without matches, proclaim that they were trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. An occasional adult scoutmaster complained. "The man in charge of a group of boy hikers," wrote one, "has somewhat the same problems that faced Moses in managing the Exodus. There is a similar effort involved in keeping up morale and discipline. There is the same need to dispel almost universal fear of death...
...seem to enjoy the brave new look our Chief Justice is giving the Supreme Court. But down here we think that if he was big enough in the segregation case to amend the Constitution singlehanded he should be big enough to kick Du Pont in the pants...
Producer-Director Stanley Kramer ranged expensively (budget: $4,000,000) over much of Spain in shooting his brave try at an epic. To woo realism, he faked virtually nothing; even his big gun. an awesome example of the perversity of inanimate objects, is actually what it seems. To give his film size, Kramer set it against Spain's brooding mountain grandeur and its trackless plains, its magnificent cathedrals and haunted, fairy-tale towns. He enlisted the services of Dictator Franco's army and thousands of Spanish extras...
When he is not being hysterical. Hero Jimmy gets to the heart of what is the matter: "There aren't any good, brave causes left. If the big bang does come, and we all get killed off, it won't be in aid of the oldfashioned, grand design. It'll just be for the Brave New-nothing-very-much-thank-you." Says Jimmy's mistress of Jimmy: "He thinks he's still in the middle of the French Revolution. And that's where he ought to be, of course...