Word: unyieldingness
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In spite of the rising violence, Mubarak confidently asserts that he does not consider the Islamists a serious threat to his government. "The situation is not that unstable," he told TIME's Cairo bureau chief Dean Fischer last week. Radical Muslims who oppose peace between Arabs and Israelis, Mubarak is...
I realized, recently, that I've once again started to notice the Veritas emblems that abound here at Harvard. Sometime between a few days ago and my first few weeks as a first-year I had become used to drinking orange juice from Veritas paper cups and to wrapping muffins...
Rothenberg did her first horse, a pallid and watery sketch, in 1973, and it is hard nowadays to remember what an unyielding prejudice against any kind of hand-painted figuration existed in New York 20 years ago. Abstract art -- in particular its last whole-cloth style, Minimalism -- had done away...
Alan Alda's unsinkable niceness tempered Neil Simon's unyielding self- criticism in a surprisingly funny and engrossing play about a writer who prefers to deal with people as characters inside his head, so he can summon, alter or dismiss them at will.
At the other end of the scale of suffering is Wasserstein's wry comedy about three sisters (yes, they make frequent references to Chekhov) whose problem is not failing to get to Moscow but failing to stay, spiritually, in their ancestral Jewish Brooklyn. All three are compulsive achievers. The eldest...