Word: opinionatedness
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After long basking on the French Riviera, Somerset Maugham returned to London for a ten-week chill in Britain's foggy-foggy autumnal dews. At 86, Author Maugham is possibly as acidly opinionated as ever in his life. He himself never published anything that was censorably naughty, and he...
Such personal asides stand out from the bulk of more serious reflections in these reminiscences, originally recorded on tape as part of Columbia University's massive oral history project, which has laboriously recorded for posterity the recollections of 600 prominent Americans. "Whether through weakness or good nature," Justice Frankfurter...
See Cover: What kind of man makes a good missionary? Once, a preacher who needed an assistant decided to take a chance on a middle-aged man who was bossy, opinionated and temperamental, with a strong streak of fanaticism and an unsavory past. He turned out to have picked the...
How Can We Lend? "Heller's attitude was not "Why should we lend this man money?" but "How can we lend this man money?" Tough and opinionated in sizing, up a deal, Heller nonetheless pushed his company ahead by treating many a nervous corporation head as a person instead...
President Lowell, though, was not only the symbol of tremendous progress in the University; he was a personality. Occasionally irritable, often opinionated, he was, according to Samuel Eliot Morison, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of History, Emeritus, "a man who conversed rapidly and listened little." He pushed incessantly for what he wanted...