Word: hardheaded
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...screenplay focuses more sharply than the novel did on Private Robert E. Lee ("Prew") Prewitt, the "hardhead" who can "soldier with any man," the 30-year man who cannot play it smart because he is cursed with a piece of ultimate wisdom. As he puts it, "If a man don't go his own way, he's nothin...
...many a cheerful hardhead, remembering some of Prophet Cherne's previous misfires, will empty the saltcellar on these predictions. Cassandra Cherne has been wrong before: notably when he erred by some $32,000,000,000 in his gloomy foreboding that war would cut the U.S. standard of living 25%. And some of Cherne's "startling" facts are not so startling e.g., that one-fifth of the nation's land (long in the public domain) is owned by the Federal Government, that this is somehow a threat to private enterprise. And even pushovers will wonder how Cassandra Cherne reaches his last...
...Strength Through Joy automobile factories, France's Maginot Line-it was the kind of Big Job that made a strong appeal to the imagination. The thought of warships abuilding on sheltered inland seas, of ocean-going freighters plowing to the docks of Detroit, appealed to many a hardhead aware of the labyrinthine economic dangers of the project. It was impossible to estimate the cultural consequences of so vast an undertaking, the changed relations with Canada that it would involve, the impact on the traditionally isolationist Middle West in finding its harbors linked to the docks of Amsterdam...