Word: stubborn
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...Egghead,--Mailer had himself attacked Hollywood, largely on the strength of his first novel, and having failed as a scriptwriter, wrote a good, serious second echelon novel about Hollywood. While no Day of the Locust nor a Last Tycoon, Mailer's Deer Park was grudgingly accorded its own stubborn virtues a decade after its publication. At that point in his career, Mailer found the challenge of the novel paralyzingly demanding. In the appraisal which followed the finishing of the work, Mailer revealed that he had decided to make a virtue of the difficulty he was having. Good writing should...
...broken by Vice President Agnew, but the overall measure sailed through by 77-20. If the House agrees, construction on the $4 billion pipeline could begin within six months, and oil could start to flow south by 1977. But the environmentalists are nothing if not stubborn. They plan to lobby against similar action by the House-and, if necessary, go back to court to raise new challenges...
...Hayward, Akhmatova's life probably never would have run smoothly. Although the original music is lost even in the best translation, enough of her emotional tones come through this excellent Englishing to suggest a tough individualist whose highly economical style was due not to reticence but a stubborn belief that she had distilled the truth and the reader could take it or leave...
...tailored look is your thing, you are used to paying for it and won't sweat too much at Cambridge costs. Settebello has the best in Italian cuts, and Design Research, or DR, has its own stubborn brand of chic. Ann Taylor's is downstairs from DR; it goes in for the sort of fashion that smells of 7th Ave. Capezio's (30 Dunster St.) carries brand names like Crazy Horse, but it is not big on distinctiveness...
...young Churchill duly records the Crown's triumph in the Sudan over "these savages with their vile customs and brutal ideas." But in South Africa, he praises "the stubborn, unpretentious valour of the Boer." British set backs make him fudge, apologize, sermonize. He is capable of humor, though. "Islam," he writes, "does indeed teach man how to die, [but] dying is a trick very few people have been unable to pick...