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Yet he has embarked on a quixotic effort to engage Farrakhan and change his mind.
Don Quixote is listed in the Appendix, but I could not find him in the dictionary, nor could I find quixotic, Queen of Sheba, Jeeves, Venus, Einstein (for `genius'), Hitler (for `demagogue, tryant'), Attila the Hun (for `barbarian'), Robinson Crusoe (for `castaway; lonely person')—but man Friday is in— Horatio Alger, Narcissus , etc.
The quixotic presidential candidate refuses to answer reporters' questions and even disagrees with his wife when she introduces him to donors as "demure."
While some would love to attribute his current courageous (albeit quixotic) stance as some kind of personal vendetta against Microsoft, the diversity of his actions in the past make it plain that his concerns lie with the anti-competitive and monopolistic practices of this or any other company, and not with the company itself (or Bill Gates).
However, his analysis ("") of the "controversy" surrounding Brandi Chastain's removal of her jersey after clinching the World Cup trophy is indulgent, quixotic, and utterly aggravating.