Word: unyieldingness
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"George, be a king!" his mother commanded him, and no one can say that George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg, Arch-Treasurer and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, has not done his best. The first English-born monarch since Queen...
Ford may not have wished to tip off Panama to the eventual U.S. negotiating position, and he clearly did not want to confront the issue in an election year. If Ford lacked some political candor, his attitude nevertheless was much more sensible than Reagan's jingoistic refusal even to...
But the most significant thing about The Adams Chronicles is that it succeeds in its own terms-in dramatizing that usually unyielding material, the lives of the great. The writers have found dramatic forms spacious enough to include the acute psychological detail, and firm enough in outline to maintain reasonable...
Hamsun is housed in an old-folks home while the government ponders what to do with him. The psychiatrists are baffled and so are the official interrogators, who seem gradually reduced to bullies out to crack a 90-year-old man. Hamsun remains impervious. He is possessed by neither God...
One of the week's witnesses still clung to the notion of unaccountability. James J. Angleton, 57, had been chief of the CIA's counter-intelligence until he was pressured to retire last year because of his unyielding cold war stance. From 1955 to 1973, Angleton was in...