Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gomulka announced that the ban on Po Prostu would remain, and called a meeting of all Warsaw editors to demand greater conformity. The students retaliated by hanging a large banner from their largest hostel bearing a two-word demand: "Free Speech...
Kolakowski then attacks the sacred Marxist dogma of historical determinism. History is not predictable, he insists. This destroys the basis of the Soviet demand for blind obedience on the ground that whatever the party bosses decide to do is part of society's inevitable movement toward the overthrow of capitalism...
...grinding days of Nivola's apprenticeship are now far past. The forms he likes to make are in great demand; recently they have come to adorn such varied projects as the Manhattan showroom for Olivetti typewriters, a war memorial at Falls Church, Va. (TIME, Oct. 10, 1955). "Because of the privileges of history," Nivola says with quiet satisfaction, "we have arrived at the point where we do not have to please the king. On the other hand, we do not work to please the public. The artist must give not something that is demanded, but what he finds...
...demand for long-term money-which a few months ago had raced far ahead of supply-was being pinched off by high interest rates. Businessmen still wanted to expand, but they were so hard-pressed to find the funds-and so reluctant to pay the steep interest-that they were shelving many marginal projects...
...also a beautifully written, classic portrayal of the romantic temperament. Two of a kind, Caitlin and Dylan Thomas reveal the tragic flaw in that temperament. To intensify every passing moment of life, the romantic must live at an ever-quickening pace. Moving from excess to excess, he must demand more and more of himself. Pursued frantically enough, this course can result only in madness or death; persistent echoes of both ring through this book. Not since Dylan Thomas himself has there been anyone who could have written it - with all its sickening self-indulgence and all its haunting brilliance...