Word: unafraidness
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Flypaper Memory. Director of the U.S. Bureau of the Census from 1961 to 1965, Scammon, 52, comes to his role steeped in statistics and unafraid of conclusions. Vice President Hubert Humphrey, a longtime Minnesota friend, calls Scammon "one of the smartest men in town," adds: "He isn't just a statistician-he's a profound and deep student." British Political Scientist Harold Laski, under whom Scammon studied for a year at the London School of Economics, pronounced him "the ablest American student I ever had." CBS's Washington Commentator Eric Sevareid, a University of Minnesota classmate, ascribes...
...Debbie Reynolds and Dick Van Dyke, the film represents a new direction. Together they provoke laughter whenever they should, but for the first time both are unafraid to appear unattractive and even unsympathetic in roles that show them at play and at bay. Like them, Divorce American Style is flatteringly made up, but around the vivacious smiles are the lines of tension and the occasional haggard look of truth...
...they lined up for the march, troopers of the Philippine Constabulary blocked their path. The 380 or so warriors were unafraid. They believed that the pebbles that they held in their mouths rendered them immune to death...
...Your story on Carson really touched me. Clear-eyed, unafraid, the typical American boy, he has marched successfully through life to achieve an income of $1,000,000 a year at 41. Along the way, however, he disposed of his wife, his producer, his manager. It really makes one stop and think, doesn...
...great many writers nowadays are hung up on the psychological-fantasy novel. Their common theme is not so much alienated man as the phenomenon of what might be called the polyperse-the several conflicting personalities in a single character. Unafraid, Virginia Woolf was one of the pioneers of the form; in Orlando, the hero starts out as a man and winds up as woman. More recently, lohn Fowles's The Magus dealt with a girl who was possibly 1) a ghost, 2) a nymphomaniac, 3) an actress, or 4) twins. Peter Israel's The Hen's House...