Word: braved
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decisions to make, it might be reasonable to expect everyone to take a month off just to map strategy. But this moment of greatest exhaustion collides with the moment of greatest opportunity. Throughout the campaign, no one wanted to do anything very big or dared do anything very brave. The minute the votes are in, though, the gun goes off on another race. If Clinton and the Congress are going to face any of the hard issues, the reality is they don't have much time...
...suave, singalong chorus offers the musical equivalent of God's unmeddling sympathy. The narrator in Suicide Alley, a nihilist's jaunty march, shares Sunny's glums: "I wasn't born, I was spat out at a wall...on the corner of First and Insane." In If I Were Brave, Colvin brings the alienation home, to the singer on the stage, "a clown to entertain the happy couples." But these open wounds are swathed in lovely melodies. Colvin may feel isolated in her art, but her CD has the breakthrough goods. She won't be too hip for the big room...
...Inter-Club Graduate Council of the Harvard final clubs took a brave and necessary step this summer by banning beer kegs at all club buildings and restricting club guest policies. In making the clubs more exclusive, the council is rightly returning them to the days when they were "gentlemen's" clubs and, we hope, pushing them into a gentle obscurity thoroughly removed from the Harvard social scene and leading to their eventual disappearance altogether...
...little water in the basement, but no real damage," said Gene G. Ketelhohn, Cabot House Superintendent. "There were even a few brave souls lifting weights in the basement in bare feet...
...firm a leading edge on target marketing and family life-style offerings. The strategy is brilliant in keeping Fidelity revenues smooth, but it scares me to death. George Orwell's only flaws in prediction were in the timing and the number of Big Brothers we will have in this brave new world of electronic commerce. RICHARD CARREAU Vernon, Connecticut Via E-mail...