Word: braver
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...where the countrymen are defending themselves against the Servians. A Swiss mercenary who is employed by the Servians, Bluntschli, becomes for Raina her "chocolate cream soldier" by virtue of the moonlight encounter in which he reveals his fondness for food over bullets. Her fiance Sergius, Raina figures, is much braver than the smooth-talking Swiss, but only in the last five minutes of the play does the better...
...Raymond, boys are much braver than girls...
...BRAVER MINDS in our literary past have said that it is immoral, if not impossible, to divorce style form meaning. Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and the delighted response that it elicited from Loeb Ex audiences last weekend challenge that ponderous view of art. A farcical confection, the play is concocted solely with equal parts elan and elegance levened with tart social witticisms. George Bernard Shaw perceived, with some astuteness, that the resulting delicacy is rather "heartless" because it lacks proximity to emotion. But to an audience suffering from the true heartlessness of reading period, the comedy...
...become a matador when he grew up. By the time he fought his first bull, though, he was 14 and living with his parents in Mexico City. It was in a small ring where young bulls were tested for bravery. The one selected for Placido was very brave-braver, in fact, than Placido, who was badly battered; then and there he gave up the corrida for a career in music...
...reluctance of the Mexican intellectuals and professors to speak out against the PRI. They tell us in private of their hatred of the PRI and of its corruption. Fear for their jobs prevents them from speaking in public the things they tell us in private. Instead the braver ones use jokes and double entendre to reveal some of their true feelings as well as to release their frustrations. On July 5th Mexicans go to the polls to overwhelmingly elect the hand-picked candidate of the PRI. And so goes democracy in Mexico...