Word: highhandedness
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Consider, however, that most critical film circles in this country, given the same nominees for Best Picture, would have picked Kubrick's Clock work Orange, the most highhanded and humorless allegory since the Old Testament, and you might be won over to the Academy's way of thinking.
Alienating Whites. Philadelphia, meanwhile, was inexorably generating the kind of pressures that have cut the average tenure of big city school superintendents to three years during the past half decade. The foundation grants and federal aid that Shedd had obtained to launch his lively ideas were cut back by the...
Unquestionably highhanded and ambitious, Hurst antagonizes people who disagree with him. Even sympathetic visitors occasionally come away with a sense that some of the innovations he talks about are not yet fully successful. No one knows whether the esprit that Hurst generated among the first students can carry over as...
The next day Schumann went to Paris for the weekly Cabinet meeting. When he returned that evening, France's position had measurably mellowed. To a large degree, the Germans were responsible for that. Earlier in the week Bonn decided to cope with its nagging inflation by allowing the mark...
Albert's concept of his new job is thus in line with that of the strongest of his predecessors, men who felt fully capable of ruling the House?and, if necessary, filling a vacancy in the presidency if the Vice President, too, should die. The fifth Speaker, Nathaniel Macon, considered...