Word: unafraidness
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...elegant, gracious Mrs. Fenwick was also an outspoken, steel-strapped pipe-smoker? As Bella Abzug told her, "Everyone expected you to be an uptight dowager." Perhaps Lacey Davenport, her caricature in the Doonesbury comic strip, explains best what Capitol Hill denizens really found. Charming and upbeat, she was unafraid to tangle with the personalities that might have had the power to end her career...
...head on the doorway that 1850 man sailed under easily. The subspecies of American writers, though, seem even more thyroidal--in the past few decades they have soared in size. Mailer, Wolfe, even John Irving; these men are literary Paul Bunyans, their typewriters 40 axhandles from base to carriage. Unafraid of any subject, they tackle modern life head on, to either conquer (Mailer and Wolfe) or be conquered. There is nothing quiet and little reflective about these men; they sally forth and produce huge, energetic books. Ego--the vain notion that they have some idea why things are so fucked...
Accusing the New Right of "marching under borrowed banners," nationally syndicated columnist George F. Will last night criticized today's conservatives for attacking big government and advocated instead "strong-government conservatism" unafraid to confront moral issues...
Their survey, to be published by Basic Books in September under the title The Adolescent: A Psychological Self-Portrait, also finds that girls feel worse about their bodies than boys and are less open to sexual feelings. In both decades, the majority of adolescents seemed to be unafraid of sex, but the second group seemed no more sexually liberated than the first. In the 1960s, fewer than one often felt "sexually way behind" other youngsters, and by the 1970s more than one of five felt that way. The authors are not sure why the '70s youngsters scored lower than...
...also said at the time of the engagement that Lady Diana Spencer was that very special kind of woman who made men unafraid to be giddy. Certainly she had that effect on her countrymen. We shall also start to see what effect she had on her husband, and what effect their wedding had on the nation...