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This kind of narrow pre-judgment of Russia with which the U.S. faces the world can do this country little good. It is perhaps more dangerous than naivete, because it characterizes America as stubborn, dogmatic, and incredulous. A portrait painted in such colors clashes harshly with the glib flatteries and broad grins of Moscow's Abbott and Costello, and also with just such Russian ploys as the armaments reduction. America becomes the conservative and unimaginative, Russia appears the innovator, the offerer, the fair-haired caretaker of the peace dove...
Conductor Monod achieved his successful musical evening by a combination of stubborn determination and truculence...
...listened carefully to the agricultural experts sent in from Moscow. He exchanged quips with the farmers, drank buckets of vodka, and got a laugh out of most situations. Behind the facade of bonhomie he was ruthlessly liquidating all who stood in the way of Stalin's plans. Stubborn peasants were turned over to his friend, NKVD Colonel Ivan Serov. and shipped off in boxcars to Siberia; Jewish culture in the Ukraine was (to use a recent Communist phrase) "wiped...
...powerful Exeter Academy lacrosse team pounded a stubborn '59 aggregation 16-2, yesterday on Soldiers Field...
...most of the fringe benefit recommendations the Committee has quite fairly balanced financial needs and justified the proposals by citing the valuable features that offset any objections (as enumerated in yesterday's editorial), With its peculiarly stubborn disadvantages, the scholarship plan is highly objectionable. Although it is largely justified on the basis of need, it is not set up on that principle. The plan gives no consideration to a professor's income in granting a scholarship to his child, although he may receive money from private holdings, such as pay for outside work, the publication of books, etc. Also...