New Road, Sat & Sun CC The spirit of arch provocateur Marcel Duchamp is summoned up for an evening of Dada and daring thought, hosted by BBC arts editor Will Gompertz.
"To some people this is a very daring thought".
It's also the kind of landscape that urges you to spread out and — far from bishops and bureaucrats down south — think daring, independent thoughts.
The big suite of galleries on the second floor, which is dedicated to art since 1960, swings between moments of daring new thought and late- and postmodernism-as-usual.
Unfortunately, so far in this campaign Mr. Kerry has shown little interest in being daring, expressing a thought that is unexpected or quirky on even minor issues.
She goes on to define the spirit of the arts and humanities as "searching critical thought, daring imagination, empathetic understanding of human experience of many different kinds, and understanding of the complexity of the world we live in".
As for the daring Eliza, she harbors thoughts of engineering his escape.
But which would we rather live in, a society where a deviant thought is viewed just as perverse as having amassed a roster of victims, discouraging someone from daring to speak that thought to a therapist -- and therefore never getting a shot at preventing evil actions?
Having worked in that industry for two decades, I know the real reason insurers and their allies kept reciting the "choice and competition" mantra was to scare lawmakers away from even daring to give serious thought to a single-payer health care system.
But daring to think such unthinkable thoughts helps put us inside the mind of a president who chose to lead the nation through what he called, in his 1862 letter to Eliza P. Gurney, the "fiery trial" of civil war (his reference to martyrdom in 1 Peter 4 12).
