Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First Cries. But there is another side to the Tebaldi personality-a kind of native stubbornness that no amount of argument can shake. And occasionally, Tebaldi allows her well-reined temper to show. One opera manager who has worked with them both finds that he would rather face Callas' furies than Tebaldi's smile with its "dimples of iron...
Industry's argument for such variety is that the individualistic U.S. consumer demands a wide choice. But it is industry's own ads and competitive claims-linked with its passion for changing models yearly for the sake of change-that spur the public's appetite for variety and innovation. Says Art Sellgren, owner of a Detroit Buick agency: "The more choices people have, the more they want...
...very great human being." Monty insists that after the breakthrough in Normandy he could have won the war with a smashing left hook to the Ruhr. Ike preferred a long front along which the enemy would be smashed at all points. It is this difference and Monty's argument for his point of view that make his Memoirs historically important. Certainly no one can now quarrel with his insistence that the British and U.S. armies could have, and should have taken Berlin, Vienna and Prague. For Monty and for the West, matters would now seem much tidier...
Vice President Nixon, out campaigning in San Francisco, flatly disagreed. His points: 1) U.S. foreign policy is a proper topic for U.S. debate, and 2) the Eisenhower-Dulles record is the G.O.P.'s great asset and great hope to turn back the Democratic tide. Nixon's argument: "A policy of firmness when dealing with the Communists is a peace policy. A policy of weakness is a war policy. This Administration has kept the peace without surrender of principle or territory...
...Writers. "They have small chins and big heads and cannot win an argument." The few writers he knew who have fought back, Hecht remembered warmly. His favorite rebel: Charles (Fearless Pagan) Lederer, who came to work looking like a "decadent Huck Finn" and was in love with "the most highly paid musical comedy star in New York [Marilyn Miller]." One day she took him to lunch, read him the riot act about rising at a respectable hour and taking daily baths. "When she got done, Charlie handed her his trousers, which he had taken off during the conversation and said...