Word: braved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Terence Harold) Robsjohn-Gibbings has written witheringly about antiques (Goodbye, Mr. Chippendale) and modern art (Mono, Lisa's Mustache). In his new book, Homes of the Brave (Knopf; $3.50), he launches an attack on modern home design that may send readers reeling back to the old mohair sofa...
Says British-born, U.S.-naturalized Author Gibbings, himself an outstanding designer of modern furniture: The trouble with most modern designers is that they are less concerned with the customer's comfort than with the esthetic theories of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. In Homes of the Brave, wittily abetted by Cartoonist Mary Petty, he provides a caustic analysis of modern styles...
...Whose Walden Two is a depressingly serious prescription for communal regimentation, as though the author had read Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and missed the point...
...charges that they were gouging their U.S. customers. After President Eisenhower, himself a coffee lover, told a press conference that something should be done to reduce the price of the stuff ($1.10 a Ib. in U.S. groceries last week), Rio's newspaper Diario Carioca complained testily that "our brave and dignified friend [is] making a little demagoguery and sticking his spoon into the coffee case...
...thoughts are subjected to no rules . . . I can fly backwards and forwards in time and space." With which brave words Ireland's exiled poetaster and throat specialist. Dr. Oliver St. John Gogarty, takes off on the umpteenth lap of his favorite circuit-Dublin in the first decades of the century...