Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yesterday's match, Williams showed a stubborn, sophomore-studded team, and the varsity had to play well...
...select the side to which "positive prayer" should be addressed. For eight days, prayer for growth was given to that side, prayer against growth to the other. Result: "Sixteen sturdy little seedlings greeted us on the positive side. On the negative side there was but one." Against that stubborn seedling the experimenters directed "several brief 'bursts' of negation-strong mental commands to grow no more . . . and it grew no more. The top of it darkened and withered and it remained in the stunted, non-growing condition. No more seedlings appeared on the negated side, though we held...
...lapses, and falls apart entirely at the end. These final scenes also expose most pitilessly the limitations of his actors, and the concluding Battle of Shrewsbury is the soggiest and most lacklustre carnage ever to empurple the tented fields of Cambridge. Through it all, however, wanders the stubby, stubborn figure of Mr. Seltzer, imperturbable in his eminent eptitude, compensating for all shortcomings...
...Swiss Author Duerrenmatt showed Broadway, in The Visit, how an existentialist allegory of human greed and corruption can be made into exciting theater, especially if Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne are on hand (TIME, May 19). The Pledge uses a grisly crime to show how a man's stubborn faith can be defeated by a combination of senseless accident and faithlessness on the part of his fellows...
...since the other cops will not help. When he is dropped from the force, Matthäi opens a gas station and hires a former streetwalker with a young daughter as housekeeper; he hopes that the child's presence will lure the murderer. Matthäi's stubborn faith leads to a long wait, during which he turns to liquor, degenerates both physically and mentally. The murderer does not appear. And yet the question of whether or not Matthäi was right, after all, keeps the reader in suspense...