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...sides want to resume fighting, it is not clear how the combatants can be kept apart. Considering the built-in limitations of the ICC (see box, page 17), the effectiveness of the cease-fire would seem to depend mostly on the spirit of observance by the Vietnamese-a proud, stubborn, subtle people who can quietly nurture hate until the moment of retribution arrives...
...Women are more stubborn than men. That's why they make good reporters." Oriana Fallaci, the tiny (5 ft. 1 in.) Italian reporter who takes on the big guys for L'Europeo magazine, was off for a tenth visit to Viet Nam to reinterview President Thieu and cover the American withdrawal. The way she explains her exclusive interviews with world leaders, however, gender has less to do with it than size. "I got Thieu to talk because we are both very short. Henry Kissinger didn't talk as much because he's slightly taller than...
...heroine is victimized as a racial alien and violated as a woman simply because she is a woman. Greece's Irene Papas, who has often played aggrieved and grieving women (Z, Electra, Iphigenia in Aulis), brings to the role a controlled intensity, an innate intelligence, and an implacably stubborn anger. To humanize the part, however, is to make it somewhat less than awesome in its sweeping horror. The paradox remains that the Greek playwrights gave us a gallery of women who bewail their powerlessness while these very same women are as flintily, dauntingly formidable as any of their...
...Borges, the researcher becomes an accomplice to the fiction; in the Bertolucci adaptation, he becomes a vic tim of it. Borges' "oppressed and stubborn country" becomes Tara, a fictional village in the Po Valley, a place of old men and tenacious memories. The great-grandfather becomes a father...
Abbot Lawrence Lowell was President of Harvard in the 1920s. He was a brilliant, capable, often inspired, vigorous, and widely respected college president. He was also vain, stubborn, bigoted, and capable of immense pettiness. Lowell sent Harvard students across the River to scab during the Boston Police strike of 1919. He served as chairman of a Commission which upheld the convictions of Sacco and Vanzetti. He also expanded and developed the curriculum, upgraded the faculty, introduced order into Eliot's elective system, and conceived and constructed the House System. In the Lowell years, in turn. The Crimson seemed to reflect...