Word: intrepid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back from three months in Africa, a pair of intrepid Britons reported in with the news that the good name of Physician-Explorer David Livingstone is still to be found in the Dark Continent. While tracing Livingstone's paddle up the sluggish Zambezi (made a century ago), Voyagers Quentin Keynes, 34, nephew of the late Economist John Maynard Keynes...
...DETROITERS (Houghton Mifflin; $3.95), by Harold Livingston, formerly of Detroit's D. P. Brother & Co., tells of the intrepid admen whose clients are the shaggy, beady-eyed aurochs of the auto industry. It offers a notable addition to the stream-of-consciousness technique ("If I left now, with no notice, they'd be in a terrible mess' ... Just thinking about it, he could hear Jack Reynolds' ulcer dripping on the floor"), winds up with the same old fadeout: hero and buddy in a rose-covered ad agency of their...
...worse, behind the wheel of the Rover is an old war buddy (Anthony Steel), whom Harry Black treats with untropical coolness. After a couple of flashbacks, the viewer learns why: not only did Steel's cowardice in the war cost Granger a portion of his leg, but the intrepid hunter has long since caught the scent of Steel's wife (Barbara Rush...
...while--and you know it--that grey-haired, white-aproned, full-bodied, flat-footed American Mother, intrepid in her virtue and the iron-eyed apotheosis of "The Family Unit," bestrode the welcome mat, patrolled the hearth, and demanded homage...
Graduate school is professional school. The purely graduate seminars put a premium upon original, creative scholarship and technical ability. In these higher level seminars there is no place for the most intrepid undergraduate. The English and History Departments have already tightened the Ph.D. requirements, in an effort to give the GSAS student a more concentrated and individualized professional training. The Government Department, too, is in the process of revising its program. But whereas graduate training is made more rigorous on its higher levels, the conference courses remain static. Although both graduates and undergrads are nominally subject to the same requirements...