Word: pigheadedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1915 was as foolish in conception as it was heroic in outcome. Both ends of the scale were weighted by heavy-jawed Sir Ernest ("The Boss'') Shackleton, who in 1909 had gone to within 97 miles of the South Pole...
To illuminate Annie's redoubtable spirit, The Miracle Worker, a play by William Gibson, focused only on the first few weeks of her life at the Kellers' home in 1887. Helen was not far from being a willful little animal because no way had been found to bring...
Richard Wagner rates the fattest dossier in Slonimsky's book-27 pages. He was called, among other things, a Communist (in 1855), a madman and a eunuch. Slonimsky himself believes that, for pure vehemence, criticism of Wagner has seldom surpassed that of the German historian, J. L. Klein, who...
Having to urge vaccination rather than order it is shocking to many in the U.S., where vaccination is required by law in many states. Vaccination is not compulsory in Britain, even for hospital nurses. A law requiring vaccination of infants stood on the books for 40 years, but it was...
In a House-Senate conference over the $34.5 billion omnibus appropriation bill, Senate Appropriations Chairman Kenneth McKellar, ancient (81) Tennessee feudist, tangled with an old enemy-House Appropriations Chairman Clarence Cannon, 71. McKellar yelled that Missouri's Cannon was "blind . . . stupid . . . pigheaded" and altogether "goddamned." Cannon, who several years...