Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Where reform is concerned, Winship's style is anything but flashy. He represents the sound citizen with a stubborn faith in the system and in American ideals. "I'm not shouting from rooftops to tell people to throw bricks," he says. "I'm old-fashioned enough to think that's not the best way of getting political action." Characteristically, he proposes as solutions to the problem of urban unrest "much much more money" from the federal government and greater sacrifice from the business community...
Whipple's tampering with the editorial page has occasionally met with opposition. Since 1880, the lead editorials in the Globehave always been signed "Uncle Dudley." When Whipple decided to remove the embarrassing signature three years ago, he came up against stubborn staff resistance. Members of the staff argued that "people always talked about 'what Uncle Dudley said.'" Whipple went ahead and removed it. He adds parenthetically that he received only one letter after it was removed: "I'm glad you killed off Uncle Dudley--he was a nigger lover...
...desperate love affairs and their unfulfilled lives. The townspeople practice adultery on the grand scale, get rich on tips and graft and, when party functionaries are not around, openly voice their contempt for the bureaucrats who try to order their lives. The few idealists among the party members are stubborn but become steadily disillusioned. For them, life is a double-cross. Not only do they love as hopelessly as others; their personal lives are wrenched out of shape by loyalty to a cause that they know has become a farce, a police machine instead of a socialist dream...
Harvard's second place finish in last Saturday's IC4A Indoor Championships should convince even the most stubborn skeptics that the Crimson track team has become a power, able to hold its own against the country's finest talent...
Crowded Streets. Continuing skirmishes in the capital failed to root out stubborn-and embarrassing-pockets of Viet Cong guerrillas holed up in the honeycomb hovels and alleys of the Chinese quarter of Cholon. But Communist resistance had slackened to the point where Saigon resumed relatively routine patterns. Nightmarish traffic again snarled streets nearly empty for two weeks, and patrolling soldiers no longer had the wary, Gary Cooper glint in their eyes...