Word: bullheadedness
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The Undergraduate Council's decision to allocate $20,000 to bring Sister Hazel to Springfest was an astounding display of bullheaded stupidity and the most outrageous action I have seen the council take since I joined last spring.
Yet Burns makes his subject come alive by focusing on three crucial people. First is Lee DeForest, who patented the key invention that spawned the radio age -- the three-element vacuum tube -- but emerges as something of a self- promoter and con man. Edwin Howard Armstrong, who made important refinements...
And so destiny brought Erwin Rommel face to face with the man who would prove to be his nemesis: Bernard Montgomery. By July 1942 the Germans had pushed the British out of Libya. All that stood between the Nazis and Alexandria was the strongpoint at the arid village of El...
If anything is stirring a contentious debate, it is Bush's bullheaded demands for Israeli concessions without negotiations. As Safire noted, Bush's position is "more pro-Arab than the Arabs."
Such unquenchable loyalty fits Bush's upright nature. Yet he has so drastically subordinated himself, become such a burbling presidential cheerleader, that his own political identity is almost unrecognizable. Often he seems politically frightened, a finicky, pandering man with no mind of his own. But there is far more to...