Word: unyieldingness
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In Philip Roth’s “The Human Stain,” there’s a big line about halfway through in which the main character tries to decide “to be content with something less grandiose than self-banishment.” In...
For that is our unyielding faith - that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.
The second day, a gothic journey into the partisan excesses of American politics, was all about what the Bush Administration has become. The President chose to campaign for two of the more skeevy candidates offered by the Republicans this year, the adulterous Pennsylvania Congressman Don Sherwood and the macaca-stained...
Even the West Point parents in attendance couldn't help laughing a bit at these proud ranks being hobbled by a lone hat. But as I watched, I finally figured it out: these things that West Pointers do--parading in unyielding formation, shining already gleaming boots, enlisting to sacrifice their...
The 2005-06 season started with realistic hopes for Harvard’s first league title and ended with the unyielding reality of the Ivy hoops hierarchy.With the league’s top two returning scorers and rebounders in captain Matt Stehle and junior center Brian Cusworth—Harvard?...