Word: daring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...residence is 75-year-old President Syngman Rhee. Shrewd, immovable Syngman Rhee has played an important role in taking a new nation through its difficult infancy. Rhee, however, is justly accused of dictatorial tendencies, and has repeatedly violated the constitution to suit his own convenience. The press does not dare to criticize him, but the rambunctious National Assembly delights in doing so. One of the major campaign issue in this week's election was a proposal for constitutional revision which would strip the President of much of his power...
Only a producer extremely confident of his ability would dare to make a full-length documentary of Michelangelo's life and work in which not one actor appears. Robert J. Flaherty, who filmed the Arctic classic, "Nanook of the North," is evidently a man with the necessary confidence; the fact that "The Titan" is both an artistic and popular success is proof that he has not deceived himself...
...picture above, the hero (TED CRON '52) leaves Widener with Susan (DARE TAYLOR '53) on his right, and extra ANNE STRANG '53, on his left. His roommate (SAM TIMMONS '51) looks on with disgust. The scene isn't from the picture...
...Dare was worrying about the spaceship Kingfisher en route to Venus, and Patrolman 49 was off to nab a gang of bank robbers. Seth and Shorty, out Texas way, were hard at work saving the cattle from a tribe of rustling redskins. A handsome young Jew named Saul of Tarsus was aiding & abetting the mob murder of another handsome youth named Stephen. All this was happening last week in the stories and cartoon strips of the spanking new London weekly Eagle, dazzlingly successful magazine brain child of a boyish, 35-year-old vicar of the Church of England...
...those who have ever read a book of Fanny Burney's I bow. To those who dare challenge the statement that she was one of God's dullest creatures, (a medieum of literary wit notwithstanding) I take off my hat. But to those who say that Emily Hahn has not written an excellent biography of Fanny Burney, dullness or no, I reply in heated words. "A Degree of Prudery" is that miracle of writing: an absorbing book about an almost flat person...