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...stubborn," Ben Shahn insists at 69. "I paint two things: what I love and what I abhor...
...Cabinet reshuffle that included firing five of his older ministers, the Prime Minister appointed himself Britain's economic overlord, much as a desperate Winston Churchill took charge of Britain's defense in the darkest hour of World War II. Even for a man of Wilson's stubborn courage, it was a moment of daring. By personally assuming control of the Department of Economic Affairs, Wilson not only gave himself the toughest job in Britain but gambled his political future on victory where two senior ministers have failed. "If he is only 75% successful," commented London...
Illiteracy is a social ill that grates on a nation's conscience, raises painful visions of a stubborn ailment curable only by radical political surgery. Yet Mexico is showing the rest of the world that the condition can be successfully attacked with a combination of persistence, pesos and ingenuity. In 20 years, it has slashed its illiteracy nearly in half-from 52% to less than...
...Viet Cong function as part of a massive, well-oiled machine with controls that stretch northward from the smallest hamlet all the way to Hanoi. Their stubborn skills in the use and abuse of the Vietnamese people have been honed by decades of practice, starting with the Viet Minh guerrillas of Ho Chi Minh, who finally defeated the French in 1954. The Geneva accords that same year partitioned the country into North and South Viet Nam, a partition that Ho assumed would last only until he won a plebiscite on reunification that was scheduled...
Lady for Burning. Two things almost defeated her-Burton's stubborn inability to see the difference between Catholicism and any other religion, and his invincible interest in the theory of sex. She dealt with both problems in masterly fashion. When he died in 1890 at 79, she arranged for him to receive the last sacrament of the Roman Church. He had been dead for two hours, but the priest took her word that he was alive. Then, "sorrowfully, reverently, and in fear and trembling," she set about burning his manuscript of The Scented Garden, an encyclopaedic sex manual whose...