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...Puerto Rico, where he took on all comers for a penny and a bottle of 160-proof rum. When his son was eleven, the father saw that he was something special. In heavily accented English, Ramos Sr. says, "I was as sure my son is El Gallo, a brave fighting cock, as sure as I am that when the priest blesses this house, I'll win at the track the next day." He took Alex to a fight trainer in Manhattan, just before the boy turned twelve...
...passing brave to be a King...
When Look Back in Anger opened in 1956 it was greeted as a fusillade against British social inertia. The most famous speech in the play contains the lines: "There aren't any good, brave causes left. If the big bang does come, and we all get killed off, it won't be in aid of the oldfashioned, grand design. It'll just be for the Brave New nothing-very-much-thank-you." To day, two other lines that begin and end this speech are more striking: "Why, why, why, why do we let these women bleed...
...that was right, lad, that was brave...
There are speciality magazines everywhere--for lapidarists, and model trainists and aviationists and autoeroticists. But there is only one publication designed solely for those brave men who make a career of fighting other people's battles. Soldier of Fortune--The Journal of Professional Adventurers...