Word: bravely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minority groups--have it "too easy" at Dartmouth and receive too much "special treatment." Blacks, for instance, are the subject of a minority recruitment program, and the Gay Students' Association, like all other student organizations, receives college funding. But the [white] boys at The Review think of themselves as brave satirists--like Jonathan Swift, they say--who stand alone among the Ivy League's masses in decrying these abuses of decency and the American...
...Richard Reeves' brave notion to accomplish a rough duplicate of Tocqueville's tour, seeking out the same sorts of Americans-the mayor of New York City, the president of Harvard, businessmen and editors in quantity, and an embittered ex-President (John Quincy Adams for Tocqueville. Nixon for Reeves). The result is a spacious and thoughtful introduction to a classic. The author's theme is Tocqueville's: the national character formed in a state of fragile liberty by government, commerce, the press and the huge continent itself. Tocqueville found an exuberant nation, at times irritating...
...possible that Smash Palace is either very brave or very foolish in its refusal to calculate how its moral is likely to anger feminists. But since it is a movie stamped with integrity in every frame, it seems more likely that it was made with no ideology in mind, just a desire to show how a specific marriage was put asunder. Al and Jacqui may or may not be typical, but they are poignantly particularized people without a drop of soapsuds clinging to them...
...NOTEBOOK: Harvard trounced Yale but lost to Princeton in a Big Three match played April 23rd--a result that was repeated in the Ivies...In other League action. Harvard played Dartmouth in Hanover Tuesday, putting up a brave fight but ultimately falling before the Big Green onslaught...
...coming of the cold war soured the old idealism. "Freedom that was a thing to use/ They've made a thing to save," MacLeish wrote bitterly in Brave New World (1948), "And staked it in and fenced it round/ Like a dead man's grave." An appointment to teach English at Harvard in 1949 removed the poet from the public arena. A kindly man, he found that he liked instructing the young and that they liked him. In later years, MacLeish turned toward a new questioning of fundamentals. From the ancient paradoxes of Job he created J.B., which...