Word: braved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...odyssey of cockney mechanic Allnut (Humphrey Bogart) and missionary Rose (Katharine Hepburn) down uncharted African waters suggests tense comedy-melodrama: they must, after all, evade rifle fire, skirt rapids, fix boilers, swat flies, brave swamps, remove leeches, blow up German cruisers, and fall in love. Regardless, Huston injects the action with mechanical uncaring: Allnut and Rose talk genially in medium close shot, one of them looks off-screen, says "Look!", and Huston cuts to what they see; he resorts to this lethargic montage in introducing enemy troops, the fort, all rapids, and the boat Louisa. The repetition of dramatic technique...
...constituency (it is only 6% Negro), his votes last week to invoke cloture to end the civil rights debate and to defeat an antiriot measure undoubtedly did. But Harris' own Senate colleagues have come to expect the unexpected from the new-style Sooner, a tough-minded, blunt-and brave-political tightrope walker. After only three years in the Senate, Harris is already regarded as a possible future Democratic leader...
Religious experience, the guru's widow reminds Paul, "cannot be explained with words." Still, novels are but words, and Brown makes a brave attempt at a nearly impossible task. Even that shrewd old storyteller, Somerset Maugham, chose to avoid a confrontation with the issue in The Razor's Edge; his young American hero found self-transcendence in India, but Maugham never explained the religious experience itself...
Discussing measures for increasing Executive power, he mentioned that in the past there has been a tendency to stifle "brave new enterprises" once the sense of urgency had passed. After the initial enthusiasm faded, he said, the projects were destroyed by a variety of bureaucratic "suspicions and restrictions...
Unfortunately, Kerouac lacks the verbal talent to match his passionate commitment to the truth in himself. He suffers from a breathless style and the frequent burble of "fine writing." His book must be reluctantly put down with the thought that here is another monument brave in conception but botched by clumsy chisels...