Word: braved
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assigned Plath at about the same time I discovered Tori Amos, and, like many, I clung onto both of them like a die hard indie fan. But then, growing up, realizing we demanded odd things of love, our parents and our world, we tend to brush off these brilliant-brave complainers as if their long struggles with and against masculinity, motherhood and the other arrangements of modern life were nothing bigger than our own childhood naivetes...
...finding gigs and putting their sound out to be heard all the more admirable. All three represent a part of Harvard's population that will not follow the path well-paved and oft-traveled. Despite the difficulty of making a living that way, Weinstein and Tardy have made that brave decision to go where few others would go, and that is in the wake of the flight of their dreams. Already, Tardy is making an 8-track promotional CD (loosely entitled Jessica Tardy Live--Please Book Me) with the aim of distributing copies all over Nashville, where she hopes...
...Israel after graduation from highschool, theoretically devoted to the study oftraditional Jewish texts. They are exposed to amore radical brand of Orthodoxy, and they do notknow whether change is good, or what change meansfor their unformed identities. Some of the boyschange more than others; some put up a brave frontto protect themselves from change; one boy, it isalleged--and here's the ostensible dramaticmotivation for the play--commits suicide becausehe is confused and distressed by the Yeshivaatmosphere...
...Daydreaming or dancing in the aisles, students and faculty continue to contemplate the nature of the beast. Brave as the souls dueling the monster classes may be, they have not slain it. The beast is simply...
...symbolism. Instead, he has considered the university's ultimate goal and developed a means to that goal with the framework of the law. The resistance his ambitious plans have encountered suggests California's education problems may have as much to do with administrative malaise as with funding. Carnesale's brave response to these problems is far better for California's neglected minority students than the chants of the protesters or the ineffectual gestures of the UC regents...