Word: hardheadedness
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Businessman's Investment. The collection was the work of a pair of hardheaded Paris businessmen, Department Store Owner (La Samaritaine) Ernest Conacq and his nephew Gabriel. Ernest, who started out in 1851 as a twelve-year-old calico salesman and 30 years later owned a $4,000,000 business...
Hardheaded Raoul realizes that by one stroke he has lost wife, children, job, friends, everything dear (and respectable) in his life: if he announces that he is Cerusier, he will wind up in a straitjacket. Simple enough to hire himself back into his business-but how to get back his...
U.S. Protestantism's foremost theologian, Reinhold Niebuhr.*has written a thoughtful and hardheaded essay on his country's political philosophy. The Irony of American History (Scribner; $2.50) is an odd-sounding title-most native commentaries on U.S. politics stress such words as "challenge," "promise" or "hope." Niebuhr uses...
But in the tensing years of the cold war, Forrestal found that Harry Truman would talk tough at the right times, but was uninterested in working out a hardheaded plan for pursuing the cold war. When the Russians tried to drive the allies out of Berlin with the 1948 blockade...
In a hardheaded, cold-blooded world, Kennan argues, U.S. leaders impressed nobody but themselves by such legalistic arrangements as the Kellogg Peace Pact, the various schemes for international disarmament, the League of Nations and even the United Nations. By & large, they ignored delicate power balances, and the "strategic, political and...