Word: bravos
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...polite world, Ernest Hemingway has much to answer for. Armed with the hardest-hitting prose of the century, he has used his skill and power to smash rose-colored spectacles right & left, to knock many a genteel pretence into a sprawling grotesque. Detractors have called him a bullying bravo, have pointed out that smashing spectacles and pushing over a pushover are not brave things to do. As the "lost generation" he named* have grown greyer and more garrulous, so his own invariably disillusioned but Spartan books have begun to seem a little dated; until it began to be bruited that...
Well, no. But as the curtain went up a stir in the back of the first balcony proved almost as dramatic. At a cry of "Bravo!"-"Brava!" would have been more correct-20 men and women bared their chests and held up candles, lighters and flashlights so that their fellow opera lovers in the audience of 2,360 could catch their act. All were members of an antiordinance group called MASH (Memphians Against Social Harassment), formed last month by Memphis Restaurateur Paul Savarin to combat MAD (Memphians Against Degeneracy), the pro-ordinance lobby. Rudi E. Scheidt, president of the Memphis...
...little doubt about where he stood in the church-state dispute. As a poster gallery of Nicaraguan revolutionary heroes kept silent watch, John Paul exhorted priests to obey their bishops and to preserve the unity of the church. It was a clear show of support for Archbishop Obando y Bravo. In tones that must have echoed strangely from the same platform Fidel Castro had once used to praise the Sandinistas, the Pope condemned the "popular church," a grassroots movement in Nicaragua committed to revolution. He referred to a letter he had written to Nicaraguan bishops last June, and said that...
...those of us for whom life without opera is unthinkable, your perceptive story on Maestro James Levine [Jan. 17] was welcome. Bravo for your recognition of a brilliant artist...
...Bravo for the refreshing article by Octavio Paz. It was time something was said about the problems existing in Mexico because of American foreign policy...