Word: braved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, the Conservative Party, which was knocked from power by the Liberals in 1963, drifted along under the shaky but cantankerous leadership of John Diefenbaker, 72, the suspicious Westerner who has been trying to blot out modern life with interminable reflections on the pure, brave simplicities of his youth. At long last, after a seven-month battle, Dief decided to quit as Conservative boss, but not without making a final spectacle of himself, first by running for the leadership, which hardly anybody wanted, then by giving up after the third ballot and backing a candidate who was rejected...
...drugstore racks blossomed with a literary phenomenon: paperback-book magazines-a lively blend of avant-garde fiction and nonfiction, poetry and criticism. In effect, the p.b.m. was a mass-distributed little magazine, a brave effort to sell quality in quantity. Commercially, it soon flopped...
DIVORCE AMERICAN STYLE. Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds are brave enough to appear unattractive and unsympathetic as well as funny in this slick, cynical film about a marital split...
Meanwhile, the two are preparing to collaborate again on their next film, A Nice Girl Like Me. "It's quite a marvelous story," Boulting says, "about a girl who gets involved in various love affairs. In a way, she's like Hayley -brave, adventurous, free, although brought up in a conventional...
...reminded Edith Sitwell of "cer tain brave men at the very moment of their rescue after six months spent among the polar wastes and the blubber." To Hemingway, he had "the eyes of an unsuccessful rapist." The object of these calumnies was Wyndham Lewis (1884-1957), British critic, novelist, painter, polemicist, gadfly and editor of the short-lived and incendiary artistic magazine, Blast. This partial autobiography, written in 1937 and now reissued, proves that Lewis could give as good as he got. His book bristles on almost every page with his endless resources for insult. Ezra Pound, after a first...