Word: bravely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brave Talk. Plans call for building 200 new plants and modernizing 500 old ones; since much of the new production will be plastics and synthetic fibers, Soviet citizens may at last find it easier to buy such simple items as nylon stockings and linoleum flooring...
...This would permit Russia to catch up with the U.S., for U.S. farm surpluses are not the result of any "special American wisdom," Khrushchev insisted; it is just that the U.S. uses almost twice as much fertilizer as the Soviet Union on about half the acreage. Through all this brave talk ran the admission of Russia's disastrous agricultural failures. One arresting figure: although acreage increased 7% since last year, yield actually dropped...
...Wayne alumni want a "magician" with a "strong stomach" and "free of neuroses." He must be both for and against unions, both Republican and Democrat, yet have "no political bias at all." In breathless order, the next Wayne president must be: "A pragmatic realist, tough, resilient, strong, self-reliant, brave, determined, practical, objective, hardworking, intelligent, flexible, responsible, humble, religious, Godfearing, altruistic, no egghead, socially attractive, good-natured, friendly, and a rugged individualist with high moral character and good judgment." The alumni do not demand that on top of all this he must also be a "scholar...
...variety-like Abraham in murderous pursuit of Isaac, he was in the command of a wrathful God "Let your verdict be that it was the Deity's act not mine," he told his jurors, but they took only 65 minutes to condemn him to death. Garfield, cheerful and brave throughout his struggle for life, died 80 days after the shooting...
...given its liberty, manifestoes, taped interviews and reminiscence, Mailer presents to the world all the familiar stigmata of the left temperament-indignation, generosity of spirit and critical courage. But the one big fact that emerges from the welter is that-unlike the U.S. left of two previous generations-no Brave New World is promised. Socialism is no longer an issue. Utopia is out. The best the left can offer is seats for all in the same unbrave old world. Racial equality is the one issue on which the U.S. left-and a good section of U.S. conservatism-is united...