(At Via Carota, in the West Village, a Meyer-lemon risotto took pasta in a different direction, and if I'm ever courageous enough to try another walk-in at the perpetually mobbed establishment, I'll seek out its subtle sweetness again).
Yet despite nearly fifteen years of psychological torture at the hands of those who see a financial threat in his research, Mann remains strong as ever, courageous as ever, unbought and unbossed.
The new openings are mostly in London this week, and include some potential crackers: notably the return of the brilliant Australian circus Circa with a new piece, Wunderkammer, at the Barbican; and the ever-courageous Katie Mitchell revisiting Thomas Heywood's 1603 domestic tragedy A Woman Killed With Kindness.
On the night of June 21 , 1964 a year after the brutal assassination of Medgar Evers, three courageous young men were also killed in Mississippi.
Ever since the courageous first rebellion of Charlton G. Hogg the Brave (known to you simply as Chuck), who bit Mayor Bloomberg's not-so-iron fist in 2009, a movement has been gaining steam to abolish the cruel tradition of Groundhog Day.
When has he ever done anything courageous, or even hard?
Despite having all these opportunities, I am not sure I will ever be as courageous and resilient as my grandmother is.
In his memoirs Mr Coubertin recalled the moment: "There was also the moving occasion when, at the foot of Mont Blanc, the medal for mountaineering was awarded to one of the leaders of the famous Mount Everest expedition, a courageous Englishman who, defeated but not discouraged, swore to leave it next time at the top of the highest summit in the Himalayas".
The Bandier, Fuld & Sirulnick Families GRAY--Jonathan E. The AllianceBernstein community mourns the passing, at age 59, of Jonathan Gray-our partner, colleague, friend and one of the funniest people you'd ever meet-after a courageous six-year battle with cancer.
There were other encouraging signs too. Louis Meintjes, the 23-year-old South African who is perhaps the best cyclist the country has ever produced, made a courageous bid for a mountain stage win.
Not that Charles Perrault's woebegone servant girl has ever been the most courageous heroine in the fairytale library: she's not exactly exhibiting nerves of steel when she flees the palace ball at the stroke of midnight, fearful that her besotted prince might be irretrievably turned off by the sight of her in daywear.
