Word: bullheadedness
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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...
"Papa" Joffre is still, in the U. S., "The Hero of the Marne"; but in Paris his strategy has long been the target of savage attacks by military critics. Even such a comparative bystander as the omniscient Winston S. Churchill, Chancellor of the British Exchequer, has taken the trouble to...
The headings in the Boston Globe are works of art, judging from the following which appear above an account of a prize-fight: "Punched into Slumber"; Science Toys Coyly with Bullheaded Grit."