Word: dared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike Eliot, Playwright Fry writes to the heart more than to the head, with a controlled, compassionate irony that rates love above every other human emotion. Not only does he dare to be exuberantly romantic, he dares it in verse. And he dares to reach for timeless meanings rather than immediate credulities by making the time 1400, "either more or less or exactly," and the setting an ordinary English market town called Cool Clary...
...precisely this article of our faith that is most relentlessly attacked by Soviet Communism. The men of the Kremlin say they have no objection to religion as a personal matter. They permit churches to stay open. But what they cannot permit, what they dare not tolerate is the assertion that their government, all government, is subject to a higher law, the moral...
...their families, faced the uncertainty of getting a living in the West. Said a 27-year-old soprano: "Yes, my family is still in Dresden. The idea that I won't see them for God knows how long isn't very cheering. I don't dare think about the possibilities of reprisals. It's the same for all of us; we all have relatives in Dresden, but if they don't understand down there that we want to sing, that we're neutral, that we can't and don't want...
...Papa," said the boy Leon Blum, "how dare you sell your ware for more money than you paid for it?" There is no record of Papa Blum's answer; of Alsatian Jewish stock, a Parisian merchant in the reign of Napoleon III, he went right on selling laces and ribbons for a tidy profit. But son Leon rebelled against what he later called the dishonesty and decay of bourgeois capitalism...
...Standen, all the other sciences are guilty of the same limitation - and laymen should never forget it. The biologists, trying desperately to be "scientific," spend a good deal of time trying to define their terms. The results, says Standen, are "ludicrous." They dare not even try to define "life." They define " 'stimulus' and 'response' ... in terms of one another. No biologist can define a species. And as for a genus - all attempts come down to this: 'A genus is a grouping of species that some recognized taxonomic specialist has called a genus...