Word: dare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dare attack Mao Tse-tung in China today, however fierce the battle raging around him, is in itself a dangerously fanatic act. At 73, Mao is still the Sun God (as he is so often depicted, his face radiating fire in all directions), father figure and charismatic czar of Chinese Communism. Under the aegis of Mao's Cultural Revolution, some 110 million youths above the age of nine have been excused from school since last June, either to serve in the Red Guards or simply cavort around the countryside while studying Mao's writings and singing his praises...
Lohengrin was garbed in heroic gold, Elsa in innocent white, Telramund in malevolent black, Ortrud in sinister green. In the background were painted stylized designs of a madonna, a dove and a swan. The swan, unfortunately, looked more like a Boeing 707, but, said Lehmann, "I wouldn't dare change it, because that's the way Wieland drew...
Mueller of the Evangelical United Brethren Church. But when men are imperatively concerned with "the basic meaning of life," the churches "dare not harbor such illusions any more...
...studio's most popular character since Mickey Mouse. Fred presents the hero as the sort of six-foot sissy who plays with little kids because he's scared of the bigger boys, and who helps little old ladies across the street because he doesn't dare offer his arm to a slick chick. No real boy, of course, would accept such an unmitigated gnerd as his leader, but the producers assemble about 20 Hollywood children, fresh from Disney's patented freckle dip, who act as if they would follow Fred into the jaws of heck...
...liberal eyebrow arches at these goings-on, and the liberal finger is quick to point at sly ol' LBJ as prime mover in the proceedings. The truth is that the Administration didn't dare ask for a specific long-term appropriation, what with the Vietnam War and the Great Society, and indications are that the bureaucracy is every bit as surprised as the rest...