Word: headstrong
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...controversies raged-as much about the man as about his deed. "Both the weakness and the greatness of Charles de Gaulle," observed the New York Times's James Reston, "is that he's so sure that he is right." The Christian Science Monitor called him "a headstrong and shrewd nationalist, deliberately acting against the community of great powers that has enforced the peace since World War II." Said the New York Daily News: "It has often been noticed that when a great man makes a mistake, it is usually a great mistake that he makes...
...week's end the student turmoil continued, and insurgents stepped up their attacks on police outposts and army convoys. In heavily guarded Government House, Ne Win was still hard at work pushing his headlong, headstrong course toward socialism. Last week he nationalized 17 more private organizations, including the Automobile Association of Burma and a tailors association. After all, there's not much left to nationalize-not even the Red Cross or the Boy Scouts, both of which were taken over months...
...their headstrong hurry to build plants atop plantations, many of the world's developing nations go for broke-and could end up there. When they get in a jam, they usually turn to a club of worldly bankers called the International Monetary Fund, set up at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 to give emergency, short-term aid to ailing economies. The IMF has become a powerful and controversial force in the world economy, forcing upon loan-seeking nations stiff conditions that frequently rescue their economies but gall their free-spending politicians. With loans at work in 24 developing...
...twelve tones may become a Cause," he wrote while working on his symphony, then proved his freedom from causes by building his music on rhythmic patterns outlawed by the canons of serial technique. The First Symphony opens with a lively burst of serial figures, repeated over and over in headstrong violation of Schoenberg's rules. Rushing excitement then gives way to the eerie calm of the second movement; the science-fiction-thriller sound of Gerhard's adagio strings led the admiring critic of the London Times to pronounce the imagery of Gerhard's world "as excitingly mysterious...
...struggle of an effete young draftee to rise in the Army ranks. The difficulty is that, unlike Private's Progress, Lawrence of Arabia takes itself very seriously. As a result, it is dull, four-hours long, and costs $3.00. You cannot possibly help but dislike it, if you are headstrong enough to bother seeing it; and if the wee hours do find you emerging from the Gary Theatre, the following reasons for not having enjoyed yourself will be racing through your affronted mind...