Word: insist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this familiar work. As in all his performances of Brahms Koussevitzky strives for a cumulative emotional effect through the music and ignores the niceties of the traditional Classic approach. Although liberties are taken with tempi and choir prominence, Koussevitzky's Brahms is a good answer to those who insist that the German master is academic and intellectual. Brahms was warm-blooded and extrovert Sunday afternoon...
...Democracy is predicated on the dignity of the individual man," he declared, "which must insist that he is more than a collection of stoms or a bundle of nerves. The modern scientist who combines materialism with democracy is a schizophrenic...
Formula, Discipline, Showmanship. Sometimes the Holy Cross fathers who run Notre Dame wonder if the tail isn't wagging the dog-and hasten to insist that there is a university connected with the football team. It has 4,500 students, a good chemistry department (where a formula for synthetic rubber was discovered), one of the best libraries on Irish culture and history in the U.S., and some of the strictest discipline anywhere outside West Point and Annapolis...
Said Young: "Wall Street, under the Truth in Securities Act, is quite different from the old Wall Street. Business, having found that it pays to be honest, might well insist that Pennsylvania Avenue follow its example...
...lips must insist...