Word: braveness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Wednesday some 200 members of the National Writers Union demonstrated in front of the Iranian mission to the United Nations. And in New York City's SoHo district, 21 American writers, including Norman Mailer, Susan Sontag and Joan Didion, met to exchange brave words and read passages from the Rushdie novel. Christopher Hitchens, a columnist for the Nation, received the loudest response when he said, "Until the threat of murder by contract is lifted, all authors should declare themselves as coconspirators. It is time for all of us to don the yellow star and end the hateful isolation...
Invidious comparisons being the curse of the creative class (and the perverse joy of the critical community), the first thing one must say to Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola and Woody Allen is "Brave lads...
Doctorow contrasts Dutch Schultz's struggle to save his career with the inevitable rise of the brave and quick Billy Bathgate...
...midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union was poised for war with the United States, panelists revealed at a conference last week in Moscow. But today, President Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev are on the verge of a brave new world of global relations...
...willing and brave enough to risk controversial roles like 'Crimes of Passion' and `Julia and Julia,' and potentially unglamorous roles like `Peggy Sue Got Married,'" said Dwyang. "She's played both the femme fatale and the quintessential modern romantic commedienne--that's versatility for you. She resists typecasting...