Word: daring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time, in the same place, in five acts. The protagonists speak in rhymed iambic pentameter throughout. Within these limitations Moliere, assisted by Le Treteau de Paris, has managed to create at the Loeb a comedy, which is at the same time so disturbing that, as Stendahl put it, we dare not always laugh...
...dare he? Impropriety indeed! The effrontery of that little banty rooster of a demagogue from Alabama, placing a wreath on Lincoln's Tomb [Sept. 20]. "Reverently"? With that habitual sneer? That is making a mockery of everything the great Lincoln stood for. Wallace shouldn't be allowed to even stand on such hallowed ground...
...fame abroad was such that the Kremlin had to think twice before destroying him. Under despotism, the writer's voice can assume resonances unknown in the freer societies of the West. Without formal institutions through which protest can be expressed, it is often only the writer who can dare to ask the questions and articulate the agonies of millions. So long as he is not cut down, he contains in his own person the alternative to unthinking obeisance, the witness that conscience and courage still count...
...Under the guise of academic freedom and freedom of speech," Hoover explains, students really are treacherously seeking "a confrontation with established authority," and even dare to try "to 'restructure' our society...
...process. And yet the high life somehow must go on. The challenge is to create an event so special, so sumptuous, so unequaled that it cannot be missed. Everybody must talk about it for months, charter yachts, planes and limousines, book hairdressers, order new ball gowns, do and dare anything just to be there. No matter how boring it is once they get there, just having their names on the guest list automatically makes them Beautiful People...