Word: hardheadedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Liberal Drift. "People always wonder about people of faith-whether they live it," remarks Niebuhr Biographer June Bingham. "The last 20 years of his life were years of severe pain. He bore them with grace and humor." In those same years a younger generation of Protestant liberals was drifting away...
The hardheaded industrialists of the Midlands provided Wright with a ready-made clientele. For his part, he found fascinating the scenes that more aristocratic painters scorned-a group of experimenters around an early air pump, the drama that the glaring light of a forge gives to blacksmith and bystanders. Light...
Malignant Cycle. Yale Law Professor Alexander Bickel, whose writing on desegregation Nixon admires, had doubts about that phrase. "I trust that Nixon doesn't mean that you can have a district where nothing has been done excused because it has shown good faith," he said. But Bickel found the...