Word: cravenness
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...money to prevent pollution, we must be practical and realistic. Do you think you can get governments interested in constructive action by just holding up a dead seabird?'' The pessimism of the ecologists was tempered by a rosy view of the oceans' potential. Scientist John P. Craven, lately of M.I.T., predicted that there will be airports floating on the seas by 1980. "and eventually these airports would become cities that would summer off Cape Cod and winter off Florida." Pardo went one step farther: "In future generations, a big percentage of the world's population will...
...most aggravating thing about Too Late the Hero is that Aldrich is a film maker of some accomplishment. He possesses a strong sense of atmosphere and characterization, and his actors all perform with roistering energy. Fraser whines expertly as a craven Scotsman, and Elliott proves once again that he is one of the most accomplished character actors at work in films today. Robertson gives his role just the right mixture of dumb impudence and shrewd calculation. And then there is Caine, an extraordinarily good performer with an apparent weakness for taking any role that comes along. Despite his mighty skills...
...much of what Hook feels called upon to do in the name of his absolutist faith is cruelly vengeful and it puts his Christianity in darkest question. Indeed, his cruelty places him beneath the craven Jones. For Jones, life is dear even though he does not know how to live it lovingly. For Hook, life is disastrously cheap. Mano seems to suggest that despite Jones' selfishness, there is more cowardice, a more profound "giving up," in Hook's idealism. That idealism eyes heaven too hungrily and, at its tortured extreme, sees war as salvation because in death there...
Borstal Boy is full of the warm stuff of life, brave and craven, joyous and sorrowing, abased one moment and noble the next. You don't have to be Irish to laugh and cry with it. The human heartbeat has no brogue...
James Hennigan, incumbent Joseph Lee '21, and former Governor's Councillor John Craven were the other successful candidates...