Word: roundheaded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most dramatic racing duel in recent memory. Lauda is a methodical Austrian whose technical brilliance and unflappable personality had brought stability-and a championship-back to Ferrari after a decade of decline. Hunt is the dashing Englishman who brought the verve of a swashbuckler to staid Team McLaren. Roundhead and Cavalier, a rivalry that seemed fated...
Kennedy's quixotic bill is an effort to legislate virtue - like the Volstead Act. The truth bill might lower the general level of mendacity in Washington, though the cautionary example of Watergate and the Roundhead vigilance around the capital these days should be warning enough. But if the law were enacted, could a President bluff another power by announcing a course of action he had no intention of taking...
Perks and Palaces. As between Cavaliers and Roundheads, this is a portrait of Cromwell that no Roundhead sympathizer could fault. When Cromwell puts a thousand innocent men, women, children and priests to the sword at Drogheda, the author tells us he was in a fit of passion. Did he smash and savage churches in England? Well, choirs and pageantry and opulent vestments outraged his Puritan conscience...
...cultural confrontation of more or less conventional Americans and the longhaired young at times savors of Roundhead v. Cavalier, or H.G. Wells' Morlocks v. Eloi. How elemental the face-off can become was demonstrated last week in Monterey, Calif., when the state unemployment-insurance office ruled that jobless men with long hair can no longer collect unemployment benefits...