Word: defiant
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...stop toying, the committee could offer something more valuable than controversy. Instead of forcing residents to continue pocketing tickets, Cambridge could compromise tradition with sanity by allowing all night parking on one side of the street. Making one side so temptingly legal, the city might coerce the now defiant motorists to park single file in- stead of haphazardly blocking both sides. The Fire Department admits that with one side clear even the chubby hook-and-ladder could slither through the city...
...Manhattan gallery next week, Rene Magritte proves once again that he has all the technical facility of the best surrealists and almost none of their nightmare overtones. "It is much easier," he says, "to terrorize than to charm." Magritte charms with jokes-in-oils like this properly bowlered, quietly defiant self-portrait (upper right), a wine bottle turning into a carrot (above), and a sunlit sky that casts no light on the earth below...
...national police, on the watch for assassins, faced alternately towards and away from the crowd, while plainclothesmen peeped out from behind the pillars of the Capitol building. Illness kept President Syngman Rhee confined to his house. But over the speaker's platform a huge muslin banner proclaimed his defiant message...
...appeals and two to the U.S. Supreme Court. Last week they exhausted one of the few legal maneuvers remaining-an appeal to Judge Kaufman to reduce their sentences from death to imprisonment. Said the judge: "I have seen nothing ... to cause me to change the sentence . . . The defendants, still defiant, assert that they seek justice, not mercy. What they seek, they have attained...
Gusto is not a common characteristic of present-day writers. Their most notable common trait is resignation-a resignation that sometimes dresses itself up in a splendid refusal to surrender, a defiant rejection of the unconditional terms that life demands. Hemingway, Faulkner, Graham Greene, J. P. Marquand, Elizabeth Bowen, Evelyn Waugh-they all record, in their various manners, the hopeless valor, the quiet desperation of a rearguard action, a doomed though indomitable next-to-last stand...