Word: fatheadedness
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¶ Writers. "They have small chins and big heads and cannot win an argument." The few writers he knew who have fought back, Hecht remembered warmly. His favorite rebel: Charles (Fearless Pagan) Lederer, who came to work looking like a "decadent Huck Finn" and was in love with "the most...
THAT'S no ulcer . . . That's rot-0the rot that works in the belly of all you big shots." Thus, the hero of the latest novel about U.S. business, Company Man by John G. Burnett (Harper; $3.50), castigates his spineless section chief for caving in to the pressure...
Now & then, medical science has a wonderful way of confirming what ordinary people have always taken for granted. The International Gerontological Congress in St. Louis gave that kind of back-pat last week: people do get more fatheaded. In the aged, reported Dr. Oskar Vogt of Neustadt-Schwarzwald, Germany, most...
The doctor makes a point of not coddling his vast, loyal audience. "Doctor, does it do any good in rheumatism to carry a potato in the pocket?" asked a listener last week. "A fatheaded question," replied the amiable doctor. "Now I ask you-do you really think that changes in...
But certain other facts were inescapable: there were men in high places, charged with the defense of the republic, who had erred; there were others who had been completely and unaccountably fatheaded.