Word: brazening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shultz's reply was quick, angry and scornful: "No coverup, however brazen or elaborate, can ... absolve the Soviet Union of its responsibility to explain its behavior...
...published to a chorus of raves, scrupulously documents Julius Rosenberg's involvement with a Soviet spy ring; Ethel was probably a knowledgeable but passive member of the cabal. Since the authors' preliminary findings were published in 1979, Daniel's angry grimace looks like a rictus of brazen naivete...
...That brazen daylight attack on Israeli forces last week underscored the urgency behind Prime Minister Menachem Begin's pledge to the Knesset, delivered three days later, "to bring our sons home from Lebanon." It also drove home a harder truth to the Israeli public: one year after the Israeli invasion that was launched with the intention of transforming Lebanon into a friendly neighbor whose soil would never again be used as a base for attacks against Israel, Israeli forces in Lebanon have become bogged down in an increasingly violent war of nerves. Three days after the Chouf ambush...
...says the actor, pointing, for example, to his most recent role as Helen Highwater, the brash hooker of this year's Pudding show, "Of Mines and Men." He explains how he developed the Highwater character: "I decided that my girlfriend's roommate best suited Helen. She's a pretty brazen, brash, real tough mama--if you'll excuse my French. I clued her in later, but she would catch me staring at her when I was visiting and she'd say, 'What are you doing?' when actually, I was trying to develop Helen through...
While these ideas might be perfect for late-night bull sessions, they have no grounding in reality. But they are just a sampling of the brazen assertions offered in two new books, The Chemistry of Love by Michael Liebowitz, a psychiatrist at Columbia, and Science and Moral Priority, by Roger W. Sperry, a psychobiologist from Cal Tech. In fact, it seems that these two scientists, who have had much success in the labs, have a rather inflated idea of what science can do. Both men have been blinded by their own successes into thinking that they can begin to solve...