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...Germain-des-Pres or Bloomsbury much of this might be accepted as existentialism. In the stubborn Quaker tradition that distrusts abstractions and relies on ad hoc "leadings," Maurer fights shy of any such cerebral pigeonholes. The very word idea, he holds, has the makings of snare and delusion: "The danger is that one will sit down in the world of ideas and go into a sleep so bewitchingly full of busy fantasy as to make anyone certain that he is clear-mindedly awake. The only chance of staying awake is to take with one into the world of ideas...
...week long, stubborn Syngman Rhee, veteran fighter for a free Korea, sat on his terrace overlooking Seoul and waged a war of nerves. His object was unmistakable: to block the armistice as a ruinous compromise...
Stackpole stops his story before the petroleum boom came along to supply most of the world's need for oil. But even before that, the clouds were gathering over Nantucket. Stubborn sand bars drove captains to New Bedford and other ports; the appeal of the Gold Rush drew crewmen to California. But if the oldtime whaling man disappeared, he left a record behind him, as Author Stackpole notes, as citizen of the world, man of industry, oceanographer and as "a sea-hunter whose exploits make ... a bright page in American history...
...before he can hope to give sound direction to the U.S. defense effort. If he would learn to add the skills of the statesman to the skills of the businessman, he could well become the first fully successful U.S. Secretary of Defense. But Charles Erwin Wilson is a stubborn fellow...
...Firland Sanatorium. He and his colleagues tested the adrenal output of 109 TB patients. In general, those with abnormally low steroid levels had widespread, active tuberculosis; those with near-normal levels had the commoner, less extensive form of the disease, while others with high levels had localized but stubborn infections...