Word: dares
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Those words of Reader Michael McCracken [Jan. 11] about the "outdated and archaic beliefs and customs" of Christianity dare not go unchallenged...
...young servant (Mai Zetterling) who falls in love with her master (Birger Malmsten). Like the hero of the novel, the master is an arrogant and atrabilious young bourgeois who hammers moodily on a grand piano and one day is stricken blind. Bitter in his affliction, he scorns her love. "Dare I aspire," he sneers, "to marry the housemaid?" Hurt to the heart, she leaves, and he is left to suffer at life's hands what she has suffered at his, to take the fall that pride traditionally portends...
...those who dare to uphold truth are never afraid of being in the minority for the time being. On the other hand, even those who are temporarily in the majority cannot avoid their own ultimate bankruptcy. They may . . . bluster noisily, but their majority is only a fictitious, superficial phenomenon. We will never submit to the dictates of any anti-Marxist-Leninist bludgeon. Unreasonable abuse is entirely useless; curses have not done us the least harm...
...post in the Dutch Foreign Office, he appeared to have both the drive and diplomacy to steer the world's fourth-largest international airline deftly through the financial perils of the jet age. Last week, with an abruptness that stunned the aviation industry, Van der Beugel (pronounced van dare Bur-gel) resigned his job and checked into a hospital in The Hague, suffering from what was officially described as "exhaustion...
Meanwhile, Herbert was quickly learning how little his opinion was worth. How dare he, a mere sophomore, set up his views against the considered judgment of men who had devoted their lives to thought in a given field. In the Spring of the year he determined to purge himself of egotism and sit at the feet of the masters. Instead of "I" he now referred to himself as "one" and did others a similar courtesy. He became subjunctive in his mood, conditional in his attitude and more professional in his vocabulary. Instead of "I think" he said, "One might contend...