Word: unafraidness
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...cartoons for Walt Disney, designed hotel interiors in the Caribbean. Now he has produced his first collection of clothes, including Levi-inspired pants suits in broadtail and patchwork explosions of pure color, designed so that individual pieces can be combined in any number of ways. "The hippies made people unafraid of going their own way," says Sant'Angelo, "and now that they have tasted this new freedom they will never conform again...
...their travels throughout Czechoslovakia in recent weeks, TIME'S correspondents have been impressed by the new spirit of the country and the people. "I just took off," cabled Forbath, "reporting to no authority, dropping in anywhere. The people were warm, open, unafraid, though I was a capitalistic journalist whom most people had been taught for two decades to regard as little better than a Western spy." This time, being from the West was something of an advantage, and Forbath was happy to be offered not only tea by the Russians but the clear, potent and ever-present slivovice that...
...Ritual. Freddy's dirty truths and Piet's butterfly adulteries converge with the arrival in Tarbox of Foxy Whitman and her husband Ken, a biochemist preoccupied with his own second-rateness. Alone of the women, Foxy seems unafraid of what Freddy calls "the smell and hurt of love"; seven years of childless boredom with Ken have made her vulnerable. Now, though she is pregnant, she and Piet Hanema fall in love, an old-fashioned and banal assertion of life that brings down on them and the tribe the old-fashioned and banal tribulations of middle-class guilt, entrapment...
...graceful and superbly controlled, reveal an informed intelligence that can plunge unafraid into the rip currents of Vladimir Nabokov or write a better analysis of the nature of parody than the very good one that appeared as preface to the anthology he was reviewing. And it is somehow endearing to know that the same hand that wrote The New Yorker's sane, knowledgeable review of James Joyce's recently discovered fragment Giacomo Joyce, also turned out the epic 1960 farewell to Ted Williams, Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu...
...masters of propaganda, the North Koreans can be expected to wring the maximum insult from the Pueblo affair. North Korea proclaimed that Kim's soldiers "are renewing their resolve to repulse the U.S. imperialist aggressors at one stroke, if the enemy dares pounce upon us like a puppy unafraid of a tiger." The danger is that the North Koreans, flushed with their triumph at sea, may come to believe their own propaganda...