Word: hardheadedness
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For what impressed Peck most about the Berrigans were their patriotism--their roots in the Midwest American heartland--and their discipline. Peck knew about neither Phil Berrigan's peace movement past, his hardheaded political analyses and "Just War" philosophy (no pacifist he), nor Dan's more cosmopolitan and poetic development...
In the hardheaded world of professional money managers, the rule for years was that the only wise investment was the one that turned a profit. An investor troubled by the idea of financing the military-industrial complex, pollution or racist hiring practices had to hunt up "clean" stocks on his...
A longtime social friend and personal adviser of Nixon, Burns fears that Nixon is being ill-advised on the economy by Shultz and Economic Adviser Paul McCracken, as well as by Treasury Secretary John Connally, who has emerged as the chief circuit rider and advocate for the Administration line. Burns...
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...