Word: pigheadedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Positive: Determined, practical, kindhearted Negative: Materialistic, pigheaded, self-indulgent Career: Builder, producer
The Creon of Sophocles is a pigheaded, authoritarian tyrant who is absolutely confident of his own infallibility. The Creon of Anouilh-Carnovsky is quite different. We even learn that in his youth "he loved music, bought rare manuscripts, was a kind of art patron." But now he has become the...
The audience was convinced Undershaft was right before Barbara was and this made the role of Barbara, played by Patricia Hawkins, much more difficult. She seemed both far more naive and far more pigheaded than Shaw intended. Barbara has to separate the truthful doctrine from the repulsive personality of Undershaft...
Above all, Director Ray is a teller of tales, a Bengali Balzac who envisions personal tragedy as a part of the human comedy, who can see the universal in the unique. He has created in the zamindar a character both peculiarly Indian and profoundly human, a man who would not...
To meet the June deadline, when the first Mariner of a series of three would have to be ready at Caoe Canaveral, the lab worked furiously. The designers used the basic frame of the ill-starred Ranger, added equipment needed for the longer voyage to Venus, and used the remaining...