Word: defiant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week was an ad that was enough to make an old sculptor turn in his chisel. The ad: "Epstein's masterpieces. Adam, Jacob and the Angel, Consummatum Est, For Sale. Offers Wanted." The statues were three of Jacob Epstein's most famous works: a hulking, dumbly defiant alabaster giant that makes the first man look scarcely human; a muscle-bound Jacob hugging a brutish-looking angel; and a recumbent, mummy like figure of Christ, with crude but powerfully eloquent hands upturned in protest...
...well-drilled 1,300-odd deputies in the Supreme Soviet laughed mightily. The tone of future Soviet policy had been set: a strong, defiant, but not warlike attitude...
...night last week, 1,200 defiant men & women packed into a small, smoky, underground hall beneath St. Mary's Anglican Cathedral in Johannesburg. As cops of Malan's "Special Branch" looked on, white lawyers, teachers, clergymen and office workers boldly sat side by side with Africans and Indians. Novelist Alan Paton (Cry, the Beloved Country), a party founder, spoke with apostolic fervor: "For the first time we openly proclaim the things we believe ... In Africa the imperative need is to create some kind of common society for white and black . . . Color bars imposed by the whites have produced...
...forbidden to have more than one visitor a week, denied permission to use a telephone, to see aides or sign city papers. The city council president was authorized to act as mayor in his stead. Having accomplished the all-but-impossible trick of exiling himself while in office, defiant Mayor Peirce vanished, still talking, behind the jail walls, and then was heard no more...
Bursting with youthful selfimportance, Frut races back with the news. But the old Sages barely listen, call his story a hallucination. Either the signs are collapsed termite burrows, they tell Frut, or erosions caused by the wind and rain. Defiant, Frut begins to wonder whether the Sages are really so sage. In anger, Frut argues in public that maybe tablelanders and creekers actually are equal. Rushed into jail and to trial, Frut refuses to recant about the Thing, and is sentenced to be eaten by Sarass the snake...