Word: bullheadedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AMERICA AND AMERICANS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). From John Steinbeck's recent book of the same title comes this picture essay on the paradoxes of America "complicated, bullheaded, shy, cruel, boisterous, unspeakably dear and very beautiful." Henry Fonda narrates.
Moving in with the second wave of attacking troops, Cathy dodged machine-gun fire, clicked off frame after frame as she and the men scurried up the hill. She stopped long enough to record one particularly poignant sequence-a corpsman bending to help a wounded buddy, jerking upright in anguish...
Picasso never lost his fascination with the human figure, but there are few portraits of the great public of his time. For Picasso to become involved with passion and feeling, he had to know his subjects intimately. As a result, he principally records his own friends, fellow artists, wives, mistresses...
To this day, 75-year-old David Sarnoff, chairman of the massive Radio Corporation of America, Brigadier General of the Army in World War II and adviser to five Presidents, resents those years of everlasting drudgery and clammy poverty, and the denial of a normal family life. Eugene Lyons, Sarnoff...
When Robert E. Lee launched 15,000 Confederates against a firmly entrenched Union Army of several times that number at Gettysburg, was he being exceptionally courageous? Or exceptionally foolhardy? Or exceptionally bullheaded (his generals to a man had advised him against a frontal assault)? None of these, according to Psychologist...