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For a great artist like Kazan to immolate himself to protect the rights of lesser artists, or more precisely in a quixotic attempt to protect those rights, would have been heroic.
The NYT views the whole quixotic episode as indicative of Weld's ulterior pursuit of some other greater political goal--either a senate or presidential bid down the road--a claim the paper makes both in its news story and in an editorial.
A piece describes the quixotic quest of novelist Larry McMurtry: He is trying to turn his tiny, struggling Texas hometown of Archer City into America's used-book capital.
English orthography's quixotic, chimerical vagaries, allowing such Cheshire-cat creations as ghoti (= fish, courtesy of G.B. Shaw) and Ghoughphthleightteeaux (= potatoes; see Firmage), are notorious.
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.