Word: stubborner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This movement that we propel forward with today's demonstration, the movement we ask President Bok to join, will recover the sense of community dialogue that has been shot by official Harvard's stubborn refusal to debate this issue in public. By speaking and acting together, participants today will generate what political philosopher Hannah Arendt called "public space," a realm for the engagement of mind and body in collective discourse and action to resolve common problems...
...Rousseau was very conscious of style, and loved referring to other art. "I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of stubborn labor," he wrote to a critic shortly before his death. He wanted his work to be a homemade replica of the values enshrined in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, as manifested in the big French Salon painters: Jean-Leon Gerome, Adolphe-William Bouguereau, Felix-Auguste Clement. He loved their important subjects, their grasp of the colonial exotic, their professionalism and high finish. So when artists 40 years his junior like Picasso...
...honored place on the country's cultural mantel. The magazine proved an accommodating haven for stylish writers as disparate as James Thurber and Isaac Bashevis Singer, E.B. White and J.D. Salinger. To many observers, the elegant weekly seemed not only steeped in tradition but nearly immutable, from its stubborn tenancy of a warren of cramped offices on Manhattan's 43rd Street to its whimsical insistence on printing its foppish inaugural cover every February: the high-necked Eustace Tilley espying a butterfly through an upraised monocle...
When Settles hit three consecutive jumpers just after the 14-minute mark of the first half, he destroyed a stubborn Harvard lead, and when he sank two free-throws with 15 seconds remaining in the contest, he sank the Crimson for good...
...interplay between the two women is the play's mainspring. Ivey bubbles with crude gaiety in her effort to be liked. Harris finds pathetic dignity in an emotional loss that makes her physically ill. The supporting cast is also adept, notably George N. Martin as Harris' stolid, stubborn husband; only McGoohan's automaton-like condescension seems unreal. Director Clifford Williams has sensitively evoked the rhythms of the play, which alternates between naturalistic bursts of action and spotlighted soliloquies. Much of the story is told after the fact, in an elegiac, ruminative tone, reminiscent of $ recent work by Tom Stoppard...