10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WOODENHEADEDNESS»
Discover the use of
woodenheadedness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
woodenheadedness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Evolution of Psychotherapy
She contrasts two things that sort of go with some of what Dr. Szasz said: Wisdom
and Woodenheadedness. Wisdom, she says, is the exercise of judgment, acting
on experience, common sense, and available information. Wisdom cannot be ...
2
Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire
flected the collective woodenheadedness of a system that had sidetracked
Russia into decades of self-imposed isolation, a system that suppressed
dissenting opinions and was unable to deal flexibly with new challenges, a
system that prized ...
3
Romanian Politics in the Ceauşescu Era
Barbara Tuchman's book The March of Folly uses the term "woodenheadedness"
to refer to the continuation of policies or actions in disregard of indications of
failure.1 No amount of evidence saying that one is wrong will make someone ...
4
SuperFuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future
“Woodenheadedness, the source of selfdeception, is a factorthat plays a
remarkablylargerole in government,” she wrote.“It consists in assessinga
situationin termsofpreconceived fixed notions while ignoring orrejectingany
contrary signs.
5
Lights, Camera, Democracy!
Under the title The March of Folly, the late Barbara Tuchman in 1984 published a
set of instructive essays addressed to what she called the “surpassing
woodenheadedness” exhibited by various states bent on the destruction not only
of their ...
The second factor which has led to great political disasters is what Ms. Tuchman
calls Woodenheadedness. She says woodenheadedness is based on deliberate
self - deception, when one purposely assesses a situation according to ...
Samājaya hā Sāmayika Kēndraya (Colombo, Sri Lanka), 1992
WOODENHEADEDNESS. lolly, as defined by historian Barbara Tuchman, is the
pursuit of a policy contrary to your self-interest. Folly occurs when we seek power,
ignore evidence, lack flexibility and are unable to reverse. She calls it ...
8
Life, letters, and speeches of Charles Dickens; with ...
For which woodenheadedness the Child shall be taken to task on Monday
morning, when I am going to look at his preparations, by appointment, about the
door. Don't you observe, that the scenery not being made expressly for the room,
...
Charles Dickens, Edwin Percy Whipple, Gilbert Ashville Pierce, 1894
They have been injured, wronged and betrayed, and for these grievances they
will mete out the penalty at the polls." For downright woodenheadedness this
excels even the administration itself. " Though thou shouldst bray a fool in a
mortar, ...
George Gunton, Starr Hoyt Nichols, Hayes Robbins, 1894
10
Albania at war, 1939-1945
In a country where 70 percent of the people were Moslem, this was little more
than woodenheadedness. When the Italians tried to explain that the fascis was
the symbol of the old imperial Roman order and that it should be valued for its
history, ...
Bernd Jürgen Fischer, 1999
