Word: stubborner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past is not our potential. In any hour, with all the stubborn teachers and healers of history who called us to our best selves, we can liberate the future. One by one, we can re-choose--to awaken...
...strategy session earlier this month to begin campaigning, at least in a few nonprimary states. Carter refused the advice. He sounded a little regretful of his pledge not to campaign actively until the hostages are freed, but he was unwilling to reverse himself. Several aides privately found his refusal stubborn and illogical. The President would permit them only to state publicly that he will not stay in the Rose Garden indefinitely: after the Democratic convention in August, he will come out and campaign...
Negative qualities: stubborn. A strain of pettiness that surfaces from time to time. A kind of us-and-them feeling that does not surface much but I think is there. I think that's endemic to anyone in the White House, but it's especially so for Jimmy Carter, coming in as the outsider, the loner, not conversant with the salons of power, coming in and running against everybody. Carter, too, seems unable to use politics for what it should be used for. The art of the politician, the public educator, whatever we call leadership, I think it's that...
...says, "I wouldn't stop working for anything! But I'm very stubborn about parts. I am not going to sink into playing little old grandmothers, maiden aunts or cameos. If the audience sneezes or blinks in a cameo, you're gone." Davis underlines her words, punctuating with exclamation points and various marks that are not found in the grammar books. If she says no, she follows it with two or three others. In real life, as in the movies, she is almost never without a cigarette, which she uses like a baton to orchestrate her words...
Silence may be golden, but one would never dream of saying that to the deaf. Yet Sarah (Phyllis Frelich), the heroine of this play, who was born deaf, believes that silence is a magic realm of treasure in which her mind can richly imagine sounds. She is so stubborn in this belief that she has refused to learn how to lip-read or attempt to speak, although she is fluent in the use of sign language. At 26, she works as a cleaning maid in a speech-therapy dorm, although tests indicate that she is capable of college work...