Word: hardheadedness
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Reasoned a senior Administration official: "Why should we hurt ourselves by stopping our efforts to enhance our now normal relationship with China? Let's not be so hysterical about this that we do things that endanger our interest." Said one Sino-Soviet expert: "Secretly, I revel in this sort...
Such reticence makes Adams' Eliza Hamilton Quarles a pallid, rather bloodless character. As a woman who came of age 20 years ago, Eliza is well versed in the arts of discretion and coping. She has to be. Her sexually ambivalent husband killed himself after becoming keen on a beautiful...
Across the past decade, the old baronies have vanished. First, new leagues began in football, basketball and hockey. That destroyed monopolies. Then athletes began to learn rudiments of individual and collective bargaining. Lawyers, agents and hardheaded union men took up their cause. Finally, courts asserted that former restrictions against free...
The dispute between the two men has often been more a matter of style than substance. Dour and woefully inarticulate, Rabin has frequently been outshone by Peres, 53, an elegant, personable and cultivated man of the world, whose eloquence is legendary in Israel. Though sometimes dismissed by U.S. diplomats as...
No Joke. One Soviet official made light of Carter's human rights talk, jokingly threatening that "the Foreign Ministry in Moscow may start issuing statements in defense of Larry Flynt [the Hustler publisher; see THE PRESS] as a victim of repression and harassment." Trouble is, to most Americans direct...