Word: bullheadedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Homer on, hardly a serious poet has been without a guardian conscience which he called his Muse. To the Greek poets, the Muses were goddesses who led a life apart from the bullheaded and goatish gods but were, like them, bland absentees. After paganism, when Christianity started trying to...
Out of the limbo in which moderate Nazi authorities have been ardently trying to keep him popped Reichsbischof ("Reibi") Ludwig Müller last week. Bishop Müller was commissioned three years ago to Nazify all Protestant Christianity. So bullheaded were his tactics on behalf of his strange brand of Christianity...
President Machado was less disturbed by Spring in Cuba than by Spring in his slow-witted brother Carlos. Carlos, 58, is a bachelor who loves cockfighting and cannot remember names. He has no wit, little education. He can read and write a little, does odd jobs for his brother, but...