Word: defiant
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Some, mostly the defiant young, blow their noses on it, sleep in it, set it afire, or wear it to patch the seat of their trousers. In response, others wave it with defensive pride, crack skulls in its name, and fly it from their garbage trucks, police cars and skyscraper scaffolds. In pride or put-on, Pop or protest, Old Glory's heraldry blazons battered campers and Indianapolis 500 racers, silver pins and trash bins, glittering cowboy vests and ample bikinied chests. The flag has become the emblem of America's disunity, and, in a land where once only wars...
...construction of a school on Randall's Island. Without any convictions to mask, Stanley has little difficulty joining up. In fact, the only thing polarized in Stanley's life is his women. Heidi from Queens is sweet, roundish and compliant. Darleen from Harlem is bitter, lithe and defiant. Why does she go out with...
...Andrei Amalric, the defiant young writer who was the object of the KGB's attention, may not feel quite so cheerful about it. Amalric, 32, is the author of Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?, which openly predicts the downfall of the Soviet system (TIME, Dec. 19). Ever since the book was published in the West earlier this year, observers of the Moscow scene have wondered how he managed to avoid arrest. One unlovely theory was that Amalric was part of a KGB plot to infiltrate the dissident Soviet intellectual community. "The subject of my possible arrest," complained...
Given his championship of Haynsworth and the fact that he is a freshman Senator from a border state that has Southern proclivities, Cook seemed to be oddly cast in his defiant role. At the start, he wanted to stay and vote with the Administration on Carswell but, after long hours of Judiciary Committee hearings and his own examination of Carswell's record as a judge, Cook concluded that Carswell flunked the test of legal competence...
...over the world, it was inevitable that Cowan should lose his innocence. In his hard-learned (and well-documented) discovery that powerful men were not in fact open to rational discourse when it came to discussing America's place in the world, Cowan had to become angry and defiant. And his book might for the first time explain why that is so to worried parents, might make radicalization a lot more real to those people who smile and explain who they are basically "apolitical." A reader would have to believe that nothing is seriously wrong with America and its government...