Word: braver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Farmers need seasons. In a lovely, squat little verse to the month of March, A.E. Housman wrote: "So braver notes the stormcock sings/ To start the rusted wheel of things,/ And brutes in field and brutes in pen/ Leap that the world goes round again...
...that he has none of the latter's squishy glamour. Gosha is a workingman, an upholder of traditional male values, however humorously he states them, and a man who insists that a woman accept him on his own terms. Katerina does, for she is strong and wise, and braver than he in overcoming the class problem their match presents, even in an officially classless society...
Most stop in the low camps, squeezing their "family-size" tents into the crowded confines of the valley. Some--braver souls who don't mind a half-mile hike or an occasional bear-venture to higher regions, spending the week at Tenaya, or Tioga, or Tuolomne. And then there are those who are not content near even the last vestiges of civilization. They are the back-packers--and they roam the High Sierra...
...says he is the editor of the Sunday Telegraph. He signed his letters 'Peregrine Worsthorne.' I said 'an unusual name' . . . Well, this man of mystery proposed to send me abroad for a treat. We drank heavy and I behaved rather like Randolph [Churchill] in his braver moments, calling for more and better wine, until I said: 'I presume Michael Berry is paying for this?' 'No, indeed, I am, out of my wages.' So then I felt I had behaved badly and could only atone by giving a lot of wine...
This is, as Le Roy Ladurie senses, the stuff of old drama with modern resonances. Yet Carnival in Romans is no mere clone of Montaillou: it is a more demanding work-a long day's journey into light. In that sense it is a braver book. The author dares, for example, to spend the entire second chapter talking about taxes. He cannot do otherwise. If sex and its avoidance preoccupied Montaillou, taxes and their avoidance seem to have preoccupied Romans and the countryside around...