Word: unyieldingness
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It has found that no matter how many non-White leaders are imprisoned and banished, new leaders appear, and there are usually men and women who are more extreme, violent, and unyielding in their demands for equal political and economic rights for their people.
MARTEREAU, by Nathalie Sarraute (250 pp.; Braziller; $3.75). This novel, by the author of the diamond-hard Portrait of a Man Unknown (TIME, Aug. 4, 1958), suggests that reality, like a geometer's plane, has only surface, no depth. A young male invalid, living with his rich aunt and...
Later in the afternoon, his unyielding line on Germany, on U.S. overseas bases and on U.S.S.R. censorship and radio jamming shook 26 members and guests of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called together for tea with the visitor by Chairman William Fulbright of Arkansas. Said Minnesota's Eugene McCarthy...
From then on, at stop after stop, Nixon was met with a steady drumfire of hostile questions: Is the U.S. really for peace? Why does the Voice of America "pour filth" on the Soviet Union? Why doesn't the U.S. recognize Red China? Aware of the Communist tactic, but...
Thus did Andrew Berding, U.S. State Department briefing officer, thumbnail last week the immobility and futility of the Big Four sessions at Geneva. Secretary of State Christian Herter confided to aides that he felt "degraded" by having to sit and listen to Andrei Gromyko's laboriously unyielding speeches. At...