Word: diehardism
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...Diehard optimism, however, comes with the territory. "Hope's native home," Wallace Stegner, the Hemingway of the Rockies, called the West, "the youngest and the freshest of America's regions, magnificently endowed and with a chance to become something unprecedented." And he wrote, "Nothing would gratify me more than to see it . . . both prosperous and environmentally healthy, with a civilization to match its scenery." If the Rockies find that state of grace, the cry around America will continue to be "Head for the hills...
...Harvard Square ice cream market, closing a Mass. Ave storefront (now home to Ultimate Bagel), and leaving many of their devoted fans without a home. The chain still has a store open on Mass. Ave. north, convenient to the Law School, the Quad, and the Co-Op, for diehard believers...
...diehard right is alarmed at the very real prospect that in the coming month the government and the A.N.C. will reach a landmark accord. This week negotiators from 26 parties are expected to set the long-awaited date for South Africa's first free nonracial elections. That poll, expected to take place by next April, could elect Mandela President in a government of national unity. The Transitional Executive Council, the first stage of nonracial interim government, could be in place within the next few months...
...collaboration by the Big Three is a watershed in American technological history. Although electric cars have been produced by various manufacturers for more than 150 years, they have been relegated to a handful of diehard loyalists and tinkerers, who were disparaged by most car builders and buyers as the nerds of the American road. It was not hard to understand why. The majority of such vehicles looked like ungainly, homemade versions of lunar walkers. Nor were they paragons of power, convenience or economy. After all, few customers would be drawn to a sale offering such dazzling features as, "Drive...
...commercial software, and if you have to, at least use an illegal copy," was the most memorable line from the talk Richard Stallman gave in early April to a sparse group of diehard Harvard computer junkies...