Word: spunk
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...merit but by effective persuasion and show. We never do know who they are. They hint at the underside of the self-made man and self-reliance, the freedom to become whatever others will believe. As they prey on others, they illustrate not what energy and diligence but what spunk and audacity wiE do in a protean society. The jack of all trades becomes the shape-shifting diddler, a reminder of how many occupations can be made to turn on the evasion of work. The cultural promise that one can make a self by shrewdness and diligence has, then...
Annoyed at the Big Green's presumptuous start, the Crimson played exclusively for the steal on defense and repeatedly came up emptyhanded. But once Crimson coach Frank McLaughlin called for the zone, Dartmouth lost some of its spunk and Harvard began to pull away...
...author's "submerged population" swims through an eternity of Irish religion, poverty and social riches. Attempts to show a bit of spunk often lead to trouble and comedy. The tumultuous courtship in The Masculine Principle is as psychologically complex as a Henry James relationship, though more lively. Another character, who forgets that his wife is having a baby and buys fish instead of fetching a doctor, is a man to remember...
...mother's fudge-detector. Early on, for example, she perceives that timid Brother John is deeply in love with her. The unorthodox resolution of this passion is postponed many years because of Franny's reaction to being gang-raped by preppies. But honesty, blood ties and spunk prevail. She is avenged and finds happiness as a famous actress and wife of an ex-professional football player...
...play was first produced in New York in 1960 when British Playwright Delaney was 21. Then, the play seemed to belong to the "kitchen sink" school of regurgitative grievances-today, it celebrates spunk. This revival, which off-Broadway's Roundabout Theater has transferred intact to Broadway's Century Theater, is taut, vital, moving and funny. An admirable cast threads reality through the needle's eye of truth...