Word: bullheadedness
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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...
Pictures in the Louvre. That they did is the responsibility of one man-Charles Andre Marie Joseph de Gaulle, 72. His ability to bring a skillful influence to bear upon events should be enough to send a believer in impersonal historical determinism back to his books. Tall and ungainly, so...
In his seven years as leader of the Opposition, Hugh Gaitskell has fought hard to make the squabbling, divided socialists fit to govern. Last week, for the first time, he finally won the support of a virtually united, confident Labor Party. But he did so by taking a shortsighted, narrow...