Word: stolidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even the little triumphs were short-lived. Bolivia's stolid Indian peasantry, whom Che expected to join the revolution, did not respond: "The mass of peasants does not help us at all and has become informers." Che watched some of his most loyal followers fall in combat, get separated from others and cut off from supplies by the army's ever-tightening clamp. "This type of struggle gives us the opportunity not only to turn ourselves into revolutionaries, the highest level of the human species, but it also allows us to graduate as men," he wrote on Aug. 8, still...
...fights, Gookin went on to Harvard Business School, and signed up with Heinz in 1945 after varied jobs in other companies. Hired as an accountant, he worked his way up to comptroller and financial vice president, made his mark after Chairman Heinz, aware that the company had become too stolid domestically, made him a troubleshooter to improve Heinz's U.S. business. Gookin did it partly by revising Heinz's somewhat outdated sales techniques, partly by proposing the acquisition of such companies as Star Kist Tuna and Ore-Ida, a processor of frozen foods that takes its name from...
...struggle for liberalization, in essence, is just another manifestation of the age-old conflict between two opposed mentalities; to speak very broadly, those of the "Bureaucrat" and the "Intellectual." The Bureaucrat is stolid, excessively rationalistic and cautious about accepting change. This is no accident, as administrative structures tend to select precisely such men for their top posts, weeding out those who do not fit the pattern. The Bureaucrat is therefore most at home in a politically repressive system, in which his power is least questioned. The Intellectual, on the other hand, is primarily concerned with unfettered human expression in both...
...Even the stolid American Political Science Association has reacted to C. Wright Mills' charge that political scientists are nothing but "the utensils of history makers...
...think with White as Mayor, the great creative resources around Boston will get tapped and Boston could again become an exciting city. But if Mrs. Hicks gets elected, Boston will continue to decay until it becomes as stolid and as provincial as one of those Irish county seats that most of our people walked out of 150 years ago." The mustachioed poll worker's analysis of Boston's fate under Mrs. Hicks seems essentially accurate; but the idea that the Honorable Kevin H. White, Secretary of State for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts could turn Boston into the swinging Athens...