Word: defiant
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Vows of Defiance. Far from being chastened by the Court's decision, many members of the House, including most of the leaders of both parties, were defiant. They vowed not to give Powell a penny of back pay-ever. Many of those who opposed the original vote to exclude him were angry, convinced that it was the Court that had acted unconstitutionally in telling Congress what to do. There was concern that if the decision stuck, the Court would be free to intervene in other Congressional practices, such as the seniority system...
...life of the people of Gibraltar." There would be no official retaliation, he explained, but he suggested that Britons might "think twice and many times before in future making plans to go to Spain for their holiday." Gibraltar, hurt but by no means crippled, stood defiant. "The Gibraltarians are making do," TIME Correspondent John Blashill reported from the Rock. "They are pitching in, answering the call, much as their British cousins did during the Blitz. The Navy dockyards are functioning. Essential services are working. Shop owners have put their wives and teen-age children behind the counters...
...Castroism is essentially romantic, evoking the image of the lone defiant man, bristling with machismo, who dares to shake his fist at the citadel of capitalism. Castro competes with Mao in dedication to fomenting revolution. Like Mao, he generalizes from his own success when he and a small band of guerrillas from the Sierra Maestra were able to take power. But unlike Mao, Castro contends that not a mass party, but a handful of armed intellectuals is sufficient to spark revolution among the Latin American peasantry. Bragging that he would turn the Andes into the Sierra Maestra of South America...
...first love. His story is a quest to recapture the exhiliaration of the original experience. But sudden setbacks perplex him: "Last night the little girl walked in and handed me my notice. They voted me out of her league and I'm sorry. I'm embarrassed."His boyishly defiant recovery retains a quality of quiet longing: "So I'm a gonna join the cowboys and shoot me some outlaws (it's something to do since I'm out here anyway) but quit it all, give it all up, if the little girl could...
...generation of Hungarian film directors for whom it was perhaps the hardest to find the way to an artistic self-expression." So admits Miklos Jancso, one of the oldest and youngest film makers in Hungary. Old, because at 47 he is a political aeon away from the newly defiant East European youth. Young, because his reputation is only now emerging from the guarded borders of his homeland...