Word: brazen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excitement of this last duet, the audience would not regret this sacrifice, but instead would realize that the grand love of Calaf and Turandot required Liu's death. Her demise was not pathetic but necessary. As it stands now, Alfano's cheap music for this scene is just as brazen (and far less exciting) than the second act riddle scene between Turandot and Calaf. They seem not to have changed at all. The final duot, if Puccini had written it, would no doubt have righted this weakness in the opera's construction...
Enraged at this brazen invasion of his region, Tshombe accused the local U.N. troops in North Katanga of carelessness or complicity, for Gizenga's soldiers obviously had traveled through dozens of miles of the "neutral zone," which Tshombe had agreed to leave under the sole protection of the U.N. forces themselves. The U.N. urged Tshombe not to retaliate, but planes of Tshombe's little air force, manned by Belgian pilots, flew off to strafe the enemy with machine guns and hand-hurled bombs. In this first use of air power in the Congo crisis, ground fire from...
...BRAZEN CHARIOTS, by Robert Crisp. The most vivid of all books about tank fighting in World War II, by a British officer who fought against Rommel in Africa...
...imagine, I was astonished and delighted at the review of my book, Brazen Chariots [Feb. 1]. I think it significant and reassuring that a magazine of your standing can select a book by an author who is not only unknown but a foreigner. On behalf of all foreign unknowns, I thank...
...Brazen Chariots, by Robert Crisp. The inferno of tank warfare has never been better described than in this book by a South African major in the British army who fought Rommel at Tobruk...