Word: gallant
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...ample cause to continue his fight. Were he to withdraw the nomination, he reasons, the act would lend credence to charges that Haynsworth was less than candid about his financial dealings. Nixon also stands to gain political points in the South; Southerners, who appreciate the style of the gallant loser, will credit the President for his valiant fight on behalf of their man. Nixon's refusal to quit is also aimed at muting criticism that he has been a vacillating leader...
...more M. B. A. students (especially black and chicano students) are determined to put an end to the Business School's splendid and serene isolation from the larger University community and from larger societal issues in general, the conservative faction of the Student Association is engaged in a gallant- but, in the last analysis-futile effort to maintain the apathy and conservatism which have been the hallmarks of the M. B. A. student body...
...Harold Robbins of American photography-not very good, but very successful. His coverage of our two Asian wars. Korea and Vietnam, have made him the best-known photographer in America. His photos have always confirmed things that we already knew, or thought we knew. His war photos: our gallant boys, bravely fighting the faceless hordes: why, sure, war is hell, and our troops get exhausted, and dirty, and ... boy! it's rough; but still they fight valiantly onward. Above all, Duncan's photos are predictable. We need only visualize our shallowest thoughts about any news event that Duncan covers...
...District Judge Morris Lasker has just denied a preliminary injunction. As he saw it, the poster makers had violated no law; moreover, banning the posters might infringe on their right of satirical expression. With a gallant touch, Lasker also reassured the Girl Scouts that their sturdy reputation for virtue would easily survive this "wry assault." Said Lasker: "Those who may be amused at the poster presumably never viewed the reputation of the plaintiff as being inviolable. Those who are indignant obviously continue to respect...
...itself; yet it is not monumental in feeling but intimate. Rubens spins his subject swiftly, eagerly, to see and show the same thing from four view points all at once. Who was the model? No one knows his name. Rubens presumably painted him for fun, for love of that gallant bronze head that seems to bear the fingerprints of God upon its temples. It is a speaking head, al though silent. And optimistic, too, against all odds. From that shadowed throat and those strong liana jaws, it speaks of life to men with a torn hope - to paraphrase a poem...