Word: stubborner
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...within. To take an essentially solitary art and make it public without negating the art is the risk any poet-performer takes. Only the rarest of men succeeds, and Yevtushenko's lack of that ineffable spiritual dimension of genius seemed right off the bat to ground out to that stubborn truth...
...best of the argument. Muskie was hardly giving aid and comfort to the Communists by telling them that Americans are still divided on how best to end the war quickly; Hanoi knows that well. The expectation of domestic discord may well have rendered the North Vietnamese more stubborn, as the Administration has always claimed, but there is no convincing evidence that this ever was or is now a decisive factor. Viet Nam long ago destroyed any vestige of the precept that "politics stops at the water's edge." For any Democratic candidate not to discuss or criticize Viet...
...real economic issue this election year will be the unemployment issue. While nearly every other indicator of economic well-being continues to improve, a stubborn strain of joblessness hangs on like a debilitating flu. President Nixon declared last week that unemployment remains the economy's "great problem," and he vowed to reduce it "significantly" this year. He is trying a number of remedies, but because of big and basic changes in the labor force and a reluctance to act decisively against unemployment until recently, these may bring little more than mild relief...
Radford, Va. (pop. 11,596), might have qualified as the noisiest place in America last week. Blank-loaded shotguns roared, a carbide cannon thundered, and a mobile loudspeaker shrilled the panicky distress cry of the starling. The point was to scare a flock of some 150,000 stubborn starlings out of town. It was a measure born of desperation-a sort of real-life reply to Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds...
Izzy, though, has no regrets. "I've shown that if you want to be a stubborn damn fool, you can do it your way and get away with it and make a living," he says. "It was a form of self-indulgence, and I've had a wonderful time at it. With all due respect to the New York Times, I'd rather have had these 19 years being editor of this fly sheet than editor of the Times...