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Schatz remembers his step out of the closet with less enthusiasm. "The thing that got me started was that I came out and started to lose friends. And it made me very angry." What saved him, Schatz believes, was a "stubborn" attitude. "If other people thought I was peculiar, then I thought there was something wrong with them. Most people, unfortunately, do not feel that...
...went about his duties, the Lebanese American, whose patient, stubborn diplomacy appeared to be the last best hope for peace in the area, was as tight-lipped as ever about his mission. "I know you guys have to make a living too," he told reporters, "but this is a serious effort that in no way would be served by public comment." Habib has skillfully managed to cool tempers during his meetings with Begin and Assad. Remarks an American diplomat involved in the shuttle: "He has a knack for timing, knowing when to act as conceptualizer one moment and a street...
...member Communist Party of France (P.C.F.). That will be no easy thing to do. Relations between the two parties over the years resemble nothing so much as a complicated minuet. For a while the parties move in step, and then they each go their separate and stubborn ways...
...Mark Twain published them, and provided Julia Grant, finally, with security for life. True to Grant's own estimate of his accomplishment, the Memoirs do not mention the White House years. McFeely's own masterly work does, however, making those years and all the others in this stubborn striver's life a microcosm of the 19th century republic. Within it the biographer succeeds in making his flawed hero a man whom modern Americans "would recognize if they met him in a crowd...
Weinberger preaches Reagan's gospel with stubborn charm...