Word: bravely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after making studies at Smith, the faculty apparently did not see enough big projects, enough new subjects learned, enough brave experiments. Afraid to make a big leap of faith into Bennington or Sarah Lawrence-style liberalism, they granted only a bit of it, and nervously revoked it when it didn't look enough like academic orthodoxy after...
...fascinated. It was a brave effort to call attention to an existing evil. I appreciate the wealth of fact. E. W. TREUENFELS Pacific Palisades, Calif...
...take foot-square chunks of thick steel plate. As seat pads, the pieces of steel are not much comfort. But as protection from Red bullets, they often mean the difference between life and intestine-ripping death. "Pucker up, and pray," is the cry over the intercoms as the brave men who fly the choppers into the Mekong Delta head off toward the land of vertical gunfire...
...Gunn and the brand-new Charade to his credit. With him, North, Dimitri Tiomkin, Elmer Bernstein, Ernest Gold and Miklos Rozsa share most of the significant action: together they write the music for at least a dozen pictures a year. Among new composers, Jerry Goldsmith, 34 (Lonely Are the Brave, Freud), and Jazzman John Lewis, 43 (No Sun in Venice, Odds Against Tomorrow), are the most admired. The young writers have completely abandoned the customary 100-piece orchestra of Tiomkin's heyday; for next month's Shock Treatment, Goldsmith uses a chamber orchestra and a chilling array...
This lofty, Panglossian attitude underlies serious, if infrequent, professional misjudgments by the Foreign Office, notably Britain's brave attempt to shrug off the Congo crisis, as well as its extraordinary lapses of human judgment, as in its boys-will-be-boys disregard of such howling security risks as Burgess and Maclean. Since more than 90% of all its recruits are Oxford or Cambridge men, class-conscious Britons still echo the plaint of 19th century Reformer John Bright that the service is "a gigantic system of outdoor relief for the British aristocracy...